Our research is based in the development of prosthetics, replacing the perception of beauty and compensate absent functions,aesthetics.
This project is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to explore one of the densest –in terms of urban and political history, vegetation, contrast, and physical presence- blocks of that metropolis. Across from Plaza San Martin and bounded by Arenales, Juncal, Basavilbaso and Esmeralda Street, in the central area of Retiro, the block holds the Ministry of External Affairs and Religion.
Prior to being a Ministry, this was the Anchorena Mansion built in 1905 to house different branches of that family. The mansion attempted to hold within itself all that was admired at the time, telling multiple tales through architecture, painting, sculpture, tapestry and decoration, in a dense, ostentatious, mysterious manner. Now with the development of that central area in Buenos Aires and the assertiveness of the current government there is considerable pressure to add density to the block and enlarge the building housing the External Affairs Ministry.
