How to facilitate connections between the city of Buenos Aires, the Núñez University campus, the Monumental football stadium and the Plata River, on a site traversed by an urban expressway and a railway line with an underused and poorly placed station with bad connections to the amenities? The aim of the competition is to transform the bridge and its surroundings and extend it to the University campus.
Call for project ideas open to students at twenty universities in Argentina
Organized with the Sociedad Central de Arquitectos, the association Amigos del Lago de Palermo, the Faculty of Architecture, design and urban planning of the University of Buenos Aires, ALVINA foundation and the city department for mobility of the Municipality
The context: site crossed by large infrastructures (railway and expressway ), bad connections of the major polarities, under-utilized railway line and remote station, poorly connected with the facilities
Main issues: facilitate the passage between the footbal stadium Monumental, University campus, the Plata river and urban neighbourhoods
August 2014: submission of projects
September 2014: temporary experimental installation for the transformation of the existing bridge and its access routes
1-2 September 2014: results, lectures and workshops
Find here more information on the student competition
Last 2 September, at the Central Society of Architects in Buenos Aires (SCA) were announced the results of the student competition.
The prize-winning projects proposed various interpretations, from minimalist interventions on the footbridge linking the station to the campus, to radical change of the motorway into an urban boulevard, with traffic lights and a reduced speed limit.
The jury, presided by Marcel Smets, awarded the following teams:
Click here for more information on the results
Coordination : Andres Borthagaray, Carla Laguzzi
Organized with the Sociedad Central de Arquitectos, the association Amigos del Lago de Palermo, the Faculty of Architecture, design and urban planning of the University of Buenos Aires, ALVINA foundation and the city department for mobility of the Municipality