EL FARO (The LIGHTHOUSE)

ARCHITECTS DAY_CAPBA D2_JULIO_2022 

2 events

one in Banfield and another in Quilmes

we met again after two years 

some of us went, 

others could not go 

but were present 

A light in the CAPBA 

that illuminates the way on the day of the architect 

an installation, an ephemeral architecture at the institution 

The building, the permanent 

Our life, our passage through the earth, 

a flash of light, the person, his path and at the end

its footprints 

a tribute to those who are gone but still illuminate our steps 

that is a lighthouse 

STRUCTURE

 The scaffolding as an element that helps to make the work 

People as scaffolding that participate in the projects 

SKIN

 The bubble film as an envelope 

protects the fragile gives shape 

The permeable and transparent skin 

INTERIOR 

The light,  

the only thing that remains 

The lighthouse, illuminates our future steps

On the first of July, the architects day, we thought it was necessary to make evident the presence of the founders of CAPBA and colleagues who have died in recent times and have left a huge void in our institution and in ourselves.   

The tribute built is a monument, is architecture, is an ephemeral monument 

The scaffolding turned out to be the most appropriate way to settle in the vicinity of permanent architecture.  

The scaffold is the structure that helps to build something bigger than itself, just as people are for the school.  

The nylon coating with bubbles, material used by the institution to pack panels of competitions that had to be dispatched to be jurors, was the most appropriate for its symbolic value and for the ability it has to be transparent and in turn with its bubbles dissipate the light and prevent looking through the structure.   

The LED lights, attached to the tubes, reinforce the initial geometry of the scaffolding and in turn complete together with the skin the volumetry of the two-level body.  

The lighthouse, completed the list of attendees to the celebration 

The approach of the guests to the structure peek, touch, enter, interact the curiosity of knowing what it was and know our history …

The light that gave off, was a greeting, an advice, a smile, a see you forever.