AIA IR Latin America - Argentina - Resilient Diversity

Buenos Aires - Designing a modern green city over a diverse urban context

Event Description

The process of Design has many different approaches and starting points. From the blank page to the executed idea, many different ways guide us to success in the solving needs that require an Architect or Urban Planner. Modern practice changed the idea of a Blank Page into an exhaustive study of the area where we’ll act.

Our Blank Page exists no More.

Today more than ever, a profound understanding of the site, its context and history are a must for an intervention that will align different layers of achievements. On the other hand, the demand for sustainability and low impact projects grew along an even more complex area of study: How to “fix” a pre-preexisting Urban Context and design over it while catalyzing its history, culture and heritage value if there is any.

Buenos Aires History presents a unique case Study to analyze Urban Planning Policies.

A city that developed from a Colony Port Capital, grew exponentially receiving immigration from all around the world surrounded by only two limits – The Rio de la Plata and a never-ending horizon.

This characteristic of always having more space to densify further out from its center, turned Bs As into a Metropolis with a unique extension where all kind of Urban Interventions took Place. Modern Practice in the city is a constant Resilient enterprise and this Talk will expand in ideas surrounding this endeavor.

CES: Estimated 0.5 LU/HSW for AIA members

Speakers

Álvaro Garcia Resta, Secretary of Urban Development of the City Of Buenos Aires
Moderator: Lisandro Aloi, AIA IR Country Representative - Argentina