Plaza Sarmiento San Fernando, Argentina

Plaza Sarmiento, Argentina Public Realm, San Fernando Urban Landscape Design, Building Project Images

Plaza Sarmiento San Fernando

Urban Realm Development in Argentina, South America design by Ignacio Montaldo architects

post updated 19 June 2021 ; 23 Feb 2010

Plaza Sarmiento, Argentina

Design: Ignacio Montaldo architects

Plaza Sarmiento San Fernando, Argentina

Plaza Sarmiento San Fernando

BRIEF

The project is part of a strategy to intervene and recover public space, in the historical district of San Fernando City. The meaning of this intervention is associated with the social role of public space within the city scheme.

This is a civilian space, binding and a generator of social and partaking coexistence. The public space offers a possibility to experience some sense of collective identity, which is shared by the different constituents of society. Plaza Sarmiento is located on the corner of 3 de Febrero and 9 de Julio streets and amidst the city scheme, where two of its limits are streets and the other two are neighboring properties.

The features are those of a “dry” park, where a children’s playground prevails. The project’s goal is to fully engage in all the needs and situations existing on the site.

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URBAN LIMITS

The care of public space in the city, sometimes creates a need -in neighbors and city authorities- to limit its use at night. The project focuses on managing those limits in the most sensitive way possible. That is to say, taking into consideration the needs imposed by city life, but with no disregard for city space quality.

The project does not consider railings as a “necessary distress” but includes them in the design idea of the park, ridding them of any negative connotation: The railings are set up with a diagonal design which defines the two main sectors of the park: one which will always be open to the city (urban sector) and the other which closes at night (playground sector). This way, during the day as well as at night, railings become one more element of the park’s equipment.

The enclosure is made by modules formed of a fixed panel, a mobile/sliding panel, a green flower-bed, a tree and a bench which, as a composite, make a rest area and define the city landscape. The dividing walls are used as part of the landscape. By means of grade slopes on the floor (playground and green terrace) and the planned vines, the present “back walls” have a new meaning and become green surfaces that jazz the park up.

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Plaza Sarmiento Argentina – Building Information

First Prize Space Urban Presentations, CAPBA Biennial, 2007
First citation, Landscape Category, XVI Quito Architectural Biennal, 2008
Architect: Ignacio Montaldo
Colaboradores: Silvia Colombo, Juan Manuel Munari, silvina Lascano, Eugenia Carro

Consultants
Lighting: Verónica La Cruz
Structures: Pablo Galotto
Electricity: Daniel Milito
Landscaping: Juan Ellis
Sanitary Installation: Eduardo Gamulin
Altimetry: Ricardo Miorin
Technical Statement: Ricardo Fricia

Location: San Fernando, Bs. As., Argentina
Year: 2005-07
Built Area: 1,844m2

Photographs: Albano García

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Plaza Sarmiento San Fernando

Location: San Fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America

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Argentina Architecture Designs – architectural selection below:

Lazzarini Optics, Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba
Architects: Castellino Arquitectos
Optica Lazzarini Villa Carlos Paz Cordoba
photo : Architect Gonzalo Viramonte
Optica Lazzarini in Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba Shop

Bocatoma Taproom, Cerro de las Rosas, Córdoba
Architects: VS Arquitectura
Bocatoma Taproom Cerro de las Rosas Cordoba
photo : Architect Gonzalo Viramonte
Bocatoma Taproom in Cerro de las Rosas, Córdoba

KILLKA – Espacio Salentein, Los Árboles, Tunuyán, Mendoza
Bórmida & Yanzón Architects
KILLKA Mendoza

Architectural Office, Martinez, Buenos Aires
Alricgalindez Arquitectos
Architectural Office Martinez

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