Medical Association in Salta / CCFGM

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• Architects

  CCFGM

• Location

  Salta, Salta Province, Argentina

• Architect in Charge

  Caron Ignacio, Castorina Santiago, Francesconi Andrés. Guel Humberto, Macrelli Marco

• Area

  806.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Federico Cairoli

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• Project Director

  Guillermo Peretti

• Technical Representant

  Alejandro Lucardi

• Structural

  Hector Casado

• Electric

  Oscar Torino Redondo

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The courtyard and the gallery.The building for the Medical Association of Salta uses the courtyard, an element of vernacular architecture of the region, as center of the project.

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The plan is organized around a central courtyard. It functions as an open hall which articulates two sectors of the building: the administrative sector, hosting offices and archives and the public sector, where the auditorium and commissions rooms are located.

The gallery around the central courtyard, a flexible and continuum space, communicates the public area and the auditorium, including the courtyard and the auditorium’s hall.

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Weather and identity: In order to the northeast architecture of Argentina, the building its resolved in solid character volumes, broad walls, and thin openings to the exterior and open surfaces to the interior.

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The disposition and continuity among the volumes and the courtyard, favors passive cooling and heating systems.The building for the Medical Association of Salta was inaugurated during October 2012 as a result of a public competition gained in 2010.