Ocantos 235, Monument to the Buenos Aires Flag
Monument to the Flag Buenos Aires, Argentina Architects, Exhibition Space, Workshop Rooms, Cinema Architecture Photos
Ocantos 235 in Buenos Aires
24 Nov 2021
Design: MasArqs
Location: Capitán Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ocantos 235
The work of the Monument to the Buenos Aires Flag was the result of a first prize in a provincial competition, organized by CAPBA, in 2014.
It is developed emphasizing the axis of Av. San Martín, the connecting artery between said access and the center of the City, from a multiprogrammatic piece, located in the place that this avenue occupies today, connecting both squares. The scale of the unified plaza is in accordance with the dimensions and importance of the project to be considered a milestone, annexing the building containing the contest program as a longitudinal bar.
This urban piece is the key and heart of the project, it becomes an active center of attraction, exchanges and encounters, incorporating activities and uses of a socio-cultural nature, such as: exhibitions, workshop rooms, cinema, games, giving space urban a new dynamic.
The piece is solved with a woven concrete flooring, on which the vegetation advances with an orderly rhythm, giving rise to the location of banks and scattered trees, conserving 95% of the existing species. The lighting is in charge of marking on this piece, the pre-existing geometry of Av. San Martin, which today is projected as an urban atrium for the Monument.
Above the atrium stands out as a...
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