Honorable Mention Award | Arquitectum 2007

NEW YORK TOWER MUSEUM

The language of the project is the result of a dynamic space tension, which metaphorically makes reference to the shroud of the Statue of Liberty. Liberty conceived, in this case, as a permanent conquest state, more than an abstract principle to follow. The aim of the project was to create a kinetic tour through the Museum Tower, which would emphasize on the observer’s experience. This is achieved with the double heights resource in the exhibition halls and the alternation of the fullness and emptiness throughout the tower. The spiral movement, observed in the Statue’s shroud, is shown as from the horizontal that describes the line of the access bridge and gains strength with the space displacement of the exhibition platforms inside the Museum. As well as in Baroque, the spiral here suggests the infinite, the unfinished, that which is in constant mutability… as the migratory flows in a permanent identity-building process. But, unlike what happens in the Statue of Liberty that hides its structure, at the Museum Tower the structural and superficial form a multiple framework, which is solved in a series of overlapped opaque and transparent layers, turning the people’s tour in an organic tension, almost muscular at a perception level. The flow of this organic trend reinforces the initial gesture of the project. Finally, the overlapping and entwining of layers pretends to show the multiplicity, the conjunction of singularities, that form the own essence of the American identity.

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Puerto Madero Architecture Museum | Project

In this Museum of Architecture, the conceptions of tour and line, carry meaning of great importance, since we conceive the museum as a building where the traffic of the public, and its stay in it, determines the interior/exterior space. The quantity and variation of the circulatory levels (stairs, ramps, elevators, etc ...) allow the visitor to obtain different points of view from which to observe the work of art exposed and, with it, also to change the way of experiencing the art itself. It is a question of constructing a building with spaces that invite to constant interaction and change, and stimulate both physically and mentally the public.

The same thing we might say of the exterior, with respect to the “metal skin”, with its changes of shades caused so much by the passage of time as by the reflection of the solar beams. These resources give the feeling that the museum is in a constant state of movement and transmits a sensation of dynamism as the visitor travels its exterior, no matter the distance to which he is situated. The concepts of space-time and the distance measured by time, are, in turn, related to the concept of line, and to that of duration. In this way, the line is related to the time, because the discussion on history is based always on the movement of the time, a line that unfolds in itself. But the time traditionally understood in a linear or unidirectional sense, would not be valid for the relation here looked after. It would be more rather like a network where one point can be connected with any other (simultaneous and parallel time).

Rendering

In our rendering department, we focus in the development of images of great quality or photorealistic to visualize projects of architecture up to the detail by means of shaped and designed 3D objects, their lighting and correct materialization.

Profile

Fernando Antonio Perez Losada (1979), Argentinian, graduates from facultad de arquitectura y urbanismo de la Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina in the year 2004 with the final work "Museum of Architecture, from thought to object -transfers from contemporary philosophy to architectural materialization". During the year 2003, he is employed at CAPMSA (Corporación Antiguo Puerto Madero SA) as supervisor of road works and infrastructure. In 2004, enters Oppel studio, dedicated to house construction, in the areas of work supervision, after-sales control and documentation. Nowadays he, is exercising the profession at Baires&Partners study dedicated to the development of projects, documentation and direction of works so much of multifamiliar housings as office blocks.
From 2003 he began to form a part as assistant in the chairs of Project and Form and Communication of Belgrano's University (FAU UB). Also integrates labPRa: laboratory of architectural project FAU UB (2007).
He published an article in newspaper Clarin "Parlamento de Escocia, Fragmentos integradores" (2006) and took part, gaining an honourable mention, of the international architectural contest "New York 2007" organized by Arquitectum.

Luis Javier LLobera (1979), Argentinian, graduates from facultad de arquitectura y urbanismo de la Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina in the year 2004 with the final work "The quality of space according to its limits". In the year 1999 he began his contact with the profession in Figueroa Bunge&Partners study where he realized project assistant's tasks. In 2003 he did some independent works for Santiago De Rosa and Javiera Ogallar architects in the accomplishment of project and documentation for one-family houses in Pilar, Buenos Aires province. The same year and the following, carried out with Galloto architect a project of extension for San Luis Gonzaga Chapel situated in Manzanares, Pilar.
Once finished his career, in 2004, he joined Oppel studio where numerous projects for prestigious neighborhoods of the province of Buenos Aires, where carried out: project developments with their respective images and documentations among others, in constant relation with work directors and suppliers. By the middle of the year 2005, enters as work director in Zero Construcciones company dedicated to unifamiliar houses, and commercial architecture. Nowadays he is employed at the accomplishment of unifamiliar houses and other independent professional proyects.