| Rather than the usual spread for such a type of development, the STRIPS masterplan is conceived as an efficient organizational densification creating a new institutional skyline and leaving most of the park untouched. The impact of a 500.000 m² civic omplex is minimized and the former hospital campus is used as its best. Former hospital buildings are preserved as public pavilions of the various ministries. The park itself is the public interface of the Civic Institutions with the citizens.
The section of the STRIPS masterplan grows towards its center, affirming its civic purpose in front of the main access. This section also inscribes the civic park in the Buenos Aires skyline.
The combination of those operations sets up the perfect conditions for the main goal of this project: the transformation of a formerly closed hospital park into a public, representative civic zone with urban and environmental qualities. |
