Torcuato di Tella University: Integrating Diversity

Josep Ferrando, Middle Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Argentina, Buenos Aires, Cluster, Educational Building, Flexibility, Interstitial Space, Open Space, Productive design, Project, Spatial practice, Structural grid, Tectonics

Photography: Federico Cairoli

The proposal for the new Torcuato Di Tella University building is presented as a rigorously open organization that integrates the diversity of the campus into a single spatial and structural system.

Tectonics becomes the base matrix for the austere but multifaceted expressiveness of the building. In an ascending sense, it presents a tripartite organization, in which each part adds one floor to the previous one, while the number of structural supports triples and doubles, successively, in response to the spatial needs of the uses required at each level, and giving a growing slenderness to the whole.