Montevideo, Uruguay
Shopping center
The original building, of 1984, was conceived as a large container defined by self-supporting ceramic enclosures, providing the building with a strong formal identity and simultaneously assimilating the economies designed for the high-risk operation.
The successive enlargements and internal remodelling, combines elements of different languages and technologies, which adjusted to the increasing need for growth due to its unrelenting commercial success.
In this context, the enlargement carried out in 2012 operates on the basis of merging and unifying all elements, aiming at qualifying both pedestrian entrances and events on an urban scale.
This process of continuous transformation aspires to open the container towards the city so as to qualify the public space.
The original building, of 1984, was conceived as a large container defined by self-supporting ceramic enclosures, providing the building with a strong formal identity and simultaneously assimilating the economies designed for the high-risk operation.
The successive enlargements and internal remodelling, combines elements of different languages and technologies, which adjusted to the increasing need for growth due to its unrelenting commercial success.
In this context, the enlargement carried out in 2012 operates on the basis of merging and unifying all elements, aiming at qualifying both pedestrian entrances and events on an urban scale.
This process of continuous transformation aspires to open the container towards the city so as to qualify the public space.
