IMAM the fantastic design by nodo17

The project, located between party proposes not only a new step between Columbus and Ricardo Medem streets, but a new semi-covered public space.

Although they are two buildings with different uses, the Institute for Women and Municipal Archives, the building is configured to form a single whole, pierced by longitudinal yards .. These yards passing through the building, its projection on the square, turn into big boxes with different types of climbing herbs, sage, lavender and bamboo.

The facade of the old Casino, according to requirements of the contest will be rebuilt, but with a new system of perforated galvanized steel plates that make up access to the Municipal Archives, a greenhouse and in turn between the facade and the new building.

Each courtyard facades creates two systems: the facades to north, formed by massive concrete walls washed with deactivating surface, and bubbles of acrylic color, and the facades to south, formed by large panes of glass types according to the inclination of sun. Both facades structural support pillars, in turn, V, freeing space on the ground floor.