The Argentinean Government, the Santa Fe Province, the Alcorta Commune and the Agrarian Federation agreed in 2011 for the design and construction of a Memorial Space and Monument to the 1912 ""Alcorta Shout"", the farmers‚Äô revolt that gave rise to the Argentine Agrarian Federation (FAA). Evoking the farmers and their work, the union struggles, the use and possession of the land, the cooperativism and the democratic institutions as founding ideas, the Memorial celebrates also actively and presently the Shout, as a daily gathering space for citizens and farmers, overcoming the passive and solemn monuments of the past.

The 400m2 building program unfolds small cultural programs, an auditorium, a gallery/interpretation center for exhibition of historical objects of the deed, along a civic exterior plaza for public events. The west pavilion contains FAA offices and public toilets, in a reinforced concrete structure and steel profiles emerging from the plowed earth. Above it, on the descending terraces accessed by an exterior ramp along the main screen and a staircase following the stepping, the vast horizon and Pampean splendid sunsets are being contemplated.

The interior's intense and intimate scales are housed at the northwest face of an extensive, folded exterior plane comprised of large steel rhythmic porticos, inclined frames and modular rugged panels. This screen carries the expressive aesthetic content while articulating the monumental scale as a classic scenery, a forced perspective for tracks circulating on Route 90 or arriving from the town. The massive relief recalling the historic ""stockpiles"" of burlap or tow corn bags materializes through a panels' system specially made out of resin reinforced with fiberglass and crude burlap molded on geometrically pixelated wooden forms.

Textures at different scales recover a textile and tactile grain, the labor engraved by the agrarian workers on the earth, their rugged skins and cloths.

Carolina Telo Project Manager, Federico Cairoli Photographer, Lucia Schiappapietra Consultant