SILOS BUENOS AIRES

A new proposal for an architecture competition that aims to rehabilitate the abandoned Silos from Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires in a creative and unconventional way.

Brief:
The old infrastructural facilities of Puerto Madero, witnesses of a time when Argentina was considered „The Granary of the World“, are now part of the contemporary city and are perfectly integrated into the new urban skyline of Buenos Aires. Only a few port structures of extraordinary heritage value have remained intact, and without a doubt the most fascinating still standing ones are the „Silos de la Junta Nacional de Granos“.

Out of use for more than 90 years, today this majestic ruin has remained somehow suspended in time and trapped in an urban context that has not yet been able to rehabilitate it as it deserves…