Urban Passages

Design by Melina Braverman and Mariana Uccello

"Urban Passages" is a project based on different urban passages in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. We were assigned the "Kavanagh" passage. There is a legend that says that the shape of the building was designed as an act of revenge. Corina, who was from a wealthy but not an aristocrat family, fell in love with the son of the Anchorena family, who were both wealthy and aristocratic. The Anchorenas, who lived in a palace on the other side of Plaza San Martín (today is known as the San Martín Palace) and had built a church that they could see from their palace, disapproved of the engagement. In revenge, Corina made only one demand to the architects: that it would block the Anchorena family's view of their church. This project was designed for the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban planning (FADU) of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

Pescio chair, Morphology II, year 2013.

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