4 questions and 4 movements
Q1.- What would be the minimum projectual gesture that we could make to lift the veil of this attractive palimpsest?
A ring, a circuit: an open-air cultural center
The Gonzalo Rodriguez Cultural Center is extended to the entire Park from a circuit that, starting from the curved traces of the Tahys design, embraces and agglomerates its park with the work of Scasso and the new Foundation building. It is walk and tour. It is circular time.
Q2. – How to naturally merge a new layer without erasing the previous ones?
An efficient and compact building, a prism that fades into reflections without losing presence in the place.
Occupy all the authorized capable volume giving only space to the penetration and coupling of the ring with the Cultural Center through a water mirror.
Internally a very simple organization; on one side the exhibition rooms, on the other the cafeteria and function room areas.
Towards the dividing areas of service and support. On the ground floor, the Gonzalo Rodriguez Room, through its transparency and the reflections in the water mirror, expands in the park and in the open-air circuit.
If necessary, it can be darkened by means of blackout rollers.
Q3 .- How to incorporate a new building with smooth skin against the powerful tectonics of the Tajamar?
A tribute to Gonchi through his helmet.
Like every pilot, Gonzalo Rodriguez had a special relationship with the design of his helmet. This is what his best friends and himself make explicit in the biographical documentary film that synthesizes his remarkable career with great sensitivity.
That is why the Gonzalo Rodriguez Cultural Center building wants to find inspiration in its helmet as a way of approaching it. Each feather is transformed into a sculptural skylight and the green that will identify it in the reflective smoothness of the trees on the metal façade.
The screen or visor of the building shows the interiority of Gonzalo’s memories as the helmet let his gaze see through it.
Q4. – How to give the new building the unmistakable stamp of Gonchi Rodríguez?
The pond hides its message
The old abandoned pond incorporates a fine water mirror that recalls the original cutwater. Under these new incorporated reflections hides the message that Gonzalo liked to convey:
“Follow your dreams”
