Palacio Paz XXI

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Palacio Paz XXI

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Firm

RDR arquitectos

Type

Residential › Multi Unit Housing

STATUS

Under Construction

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET

Unknown

The Paz Palace- one of the most impressive residences of the Generation of ’80 of Buenos Aires - is a fundamental component of the urban and landscape ensemble of the Plaza San Martín and the Retiro neighborhood. This environment of great quality and historical significance, unique in the city, is complemented by other pieces such as the Kavannagh building, the Hotel Plaza, the headquarters of National Parks, the San Martin Palace and other buildings of the beginning of the century of great value. Like many others in the city, Plaza San Martin is witness to the evolution and changes in the spatial and landscape conformation of its urban environment, of which the Paz XXI Palace is its most recent addition.
The project completes and reformulates the atypical plot of the existing residence, located in an irregular block that it shares with other plots. These limits and the impact that the environment has on the Palace and its gardens varied over time as the area became denser. Prior to the intervention, the Palace was surrounded by buildings of 36 meters in height whose dividing walls dominated the landscape of the inner block courtyards.
The project for the Paz Palace XXI is organized from the volumetry of the block, based on different levels that respect the surrounding buildings. In this way, it builds a new continuous urban facade to the set of buildings on Santa Fe Avenue while covering the existing party walls, improving the environment of the Paz Palace garden. This intervention, together with the completion of the empty lot on Marcelo T. De Alvear, allows to generate three distinctive and different building masses: the Palace itself, the urban front towards Santa Fe Avenue, and the buildings on Marcelo T. De Alvear.
On Esmeralda Street the project proposes a volume of twelve levels that takes the height of the existing buildings on both sides, eliminating the party walls and integrating the whole, previously unworthy of the pre-existing sports pavilion, whose blind façade lacked urban wealth. The facades of the project are articulated through large balcony beams, reinforcing the idea of continuity and urban cohesion.
From the ground floor, a large entrance portal and a gastronomic area improve the urban environment and allow the passerby to perceive the Palace garden. This proposal recovers the open and permeable condition offered by the old stables of the place, enhancing in turn the interrelation of public uses linked to the Palace and its garden. The portal is projected considering the original arch existing in front of Plaza San Martin, giving the whole a coherent spatial reading. Finally, a large marquee completes this operation, enhancing the relationship of the garden with its surroundings.