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Museo de Arte latino-americano Fundacion Costantini
Buenos Aires, Argentina

program permanent and temporary exhibition spaces for modern and contemporary art, museum facilities and administration offices

size 10.000 sqm

status competition 1997

The site for the new museum is aside a garden originally designed by Burle Marx and nowadays very disrupted.
We thought that a deep integration of the new museum with the re-constructed Burle Marx’s garden would be the most interesting way to go.
This implied a certain scale relationship between the new volumes and Burle Marx’s snail, and this was the reason for proposing a building that is a sum of volumes related to internal functions.
The Museum is therefore thought as a playful tool for the appreciation of the arts, in total continuity with Burle Marx project’s playful spirit.
Access court, entrance lobby and distribution mall are sequentially gathered by a volume that looks a lot like a monkey wrench ;facilities like cafeteria and bookshop are hosted in a terrace volume looking at Burle Marx’s garden.
On the other side of the mall, inserted between this and the exhibition room, stay the information facilities like video room and guided groups speech site, in triangle plan classical step theatre and exhibition rooms stay in a massive block with shed roof allowing southern light in.

Museo de Arte latino-americano Fundacion Costantini
Buenos Aires, Argentina

program permanent and temporary exhibition spaces for modern and contemporary art, museum facilities and administration offices

size 10.000 sqm

status competition 1997

The site for the new museum is aside a garden originally designed by Burle Marx and nowadays very disrupted.
We thought that a deep integration of the new museum with the re-constructed Burle Marx’s garden would be the most interesting way to go.
This implied a certain scale relationship between the new volumes and Burle Marx’s snail, and this was the reason for proposing a building that is a sum of volumes related to internal functions.
The Museum is therefore thought as a playful tool for the appreciation of the arts, in total continuity with Burle Marx project’s playful spirit.
Access court, entrance lobby and distribution mall are sequentially gathered by a volume that looks a lot like a monkey wrench ;facilities like cafeteria and bookshop are hosted in a terrace volume looking at Burle Marx’s garden.
On the other side of the mall, inserted between this and the exhibition room, stay the information facilities like video room and guided groups speech site, in triangle plan classical step theatre and exhibition rooms stay in a massive block with shed roof allowing southern light in.