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Architects: Javier Mendiondo , Lucila Gómez
- Area: 1913 m²
Text description provided by the architects. The university is located in Guadalupe, a garden neighborhood of Santa Fe, whose distinctive characteristics are dense forest, low building density, and the use that neighbors give the street as a space of encounter. In this context, the university building, with its pre-existing 12.000 m2 was distinguished by an architecture of a discordant scale regarding its environment. The project proposes to recreate in its expression and its spatiality some of the identity attributes of Guadalupe: the vegetation and the way of appropriating public space. The new building shifts the environmental character of the streets of the neighborhood to its interior through the use of vegetation, both in the facade as an environmental filter, and in the heart of the expansion with the presence of a pink Lapacho tree. Also, an open and transparent ground floor proposes a new dialogue between the building and the city, as an interaction between the central courtyard and the street.
