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A Second Look for a New Cycle of Life: From Main Post Office to Bicentennial Cultural Center – Survey and Registry for the Restoration

A Second Look for a New Cycle of Life: From Main Post Office to Bicentennial Cultural Center – Survey and Registry for the Restoration

Ana Ottavianelli, Eduardo Gentile, Florencia Minatta
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 32
ISBN13: 9781522506751|ISBN10: 1522506756|EISBN13: 9781522506768
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0675-1.ch017
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Ottavianelli, Ana, et al. "A Second Look for a New Cycle of Life: From Main Post Office to Bicentennial Cultural Center – Survey and Registry for the Restoration." Handbook of Research on Emerging Technologies for Architectural and Archaeological Heritage, edited by Alfonso Ippolito, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 500-531. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0675-1.ch017

APA

Ottavianelli, A., Gentile, E., & Minatta, F. (2017). A Second Look for a New Cycle of Life: From Main Post Office to Bicentennial Cultural Center – Survey and Registry for the Restoration. In A. Ippolito (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Emerging Technologies for Architectural and Archaeological Heritage (pp. 500-531). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0675-1.ch017

Chicago

Ottavianelli, Ana, Eduardo Gentile, and Florencia Minatta. "A Second Look for a New Cycle of Life: From Main Post Office to Bicentennial Cultural Center – Survey and Registry for the Restoration." In Handbook of Research on Emerging Technologies for Architectural and Archaeological Heritage, edited by Alfonso Ippolito, 500-531. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0675-1.ch017

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Abstract

It is not news that the material life of buildings transcends the function that gave rise to them. This circumstance is the leitmotiv of the rehabilitation and recycling works as part of architectural design practice. In the case of the former headquarters of the Buenos Aires Main Post Office, the development of new means of communication made the traditional postal traffic volume decrease, resulting in an oversized building according to present circumstances. In this context, the need was inevitable – and cultural and technical possibility – to give another meaning to the building, starting a new cycle of social use from a program compatible with its urban and architectural features. The present work refers to the graphic documents of the old substance of the building, focusing on the existing element on which the intervention was planned, with the objective of studying the components on which the conservation, restoration and intervention would develop.

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