Cordoba Day 2

              Cordoba day two was fun as well. We saw a lot of amazing buildings and it was cool cause we got to see both good and bad works. It is important for us to see these things first hand because everyone always tells us what works and what doesn't but until you see things in real life you can't really understand why something is "good or bad" architecture. This is why i think this trip to Argentina is so different then going to italy. Here our teachers are coming with us to see buildings and showing us first hand things that are creative and innovative ways of looking at a problem to create a solution. The Argentines seem to really focus on structure, building techniques and materials in their design. So they come up with innovative ways of seeing architecture that are realistic. 

 This was the Atelier’s Artist Studio designed by the architect Lucio Morini [pictures above]. It was interesting because the problem was to create temporary housing for artists while they visit the school to teach art classes, but they also need space to work and create their work. So the architect divided this long block of housing into 10 units each for 1 or 2 artists to live. The bottom floor is to work, top two floors to live. He used the CMU brick orange walls as a way to cheaply construct the building, and the channeled glass curtain wall between at the time was very cheap to get, making this project very economical. 
 

The Museo Emilio Caraffa by the same architect
[mixture of existing and new]

Concrete detail

on going photo war with Nikul 

                  

Same glass is used in this building.  On the left you can see the esisting white space transitioning to  with the new cement space.

"There, where is your body is your soul; there is no way to escape…"

TV ROTS YOUR MIND

roof top freedom

a bit of the Cordoba skyline :) 

An old extremely wealthy family's house turned into a museum by the same architects as above
[really cool cause under laura's feet are the existing stairs if you look closely
the glass and beams are floating above it]

Except this was the only good thing about the building. The foyer was coved with different patterned glass with blue neon lights and a stair case made of black cows hide brought you up to the other floors ... It was just horrible. I didn't even take any pictures of it cause we weren't allowed to  ... all ive got is this one. You can see the blue lights and weird glass. Its better this way my camera would have exploded. 

 end of day two ...