Library with integrated community outreach

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Project renderings.

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    Representatives of the winning team of the Holcim Awards Acknowledgement prize 2011 Latin America for Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina (l-r): Gaston Atelman, Martín Fourcade and Alfredo Tapia, AFT Arquitectos, Argentina

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: The “Trojan Library” - description.

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Roof plan.

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Ground floor plan.

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Upper floor plans.

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Sections and elevations.

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Public entrance.

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Public plaza.

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Public terrace.

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Building strategies.

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Main Author Portrait.

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    Project entry 2011 - Library with integrated community outreach, Rosario, Argentina: Team Picture.

  • Awards Acknowledgement prize 2011–2012 Latin America

This project was initiated by the municipal government of Rosario in response to the nation’s poor results in a 2009 worldwide evaluation of 15-year-olds in mathematics, science and reading. The strategy provides both the infrastructure of the library and a vast network of supplementary activities to generate flow-on use of the facility in Argentina’s third largest city.

By Alfredo Tapia - Aft Arquitectos, Cordoba, Argentina and

Ideas: Economic & Social Empowerment

The Trojan Library project was initiated by the municipal government of Rosario in response to the nation’s poor results in a 2009 worldwide evaluation of 15-year-olds in mathematics, science and reading.

The strategy provides both the infrastructure of the library and a vast network of supplementary activities to generate flow-on use of the facility in Argentina’s third largest city with a population of 1.2 million.

Library with integrated community outreach

Project authors

  • Alfredo Tapia

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • Dante Rimondino

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • Emanuel Garabello

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • MC
    Maria Curto

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • Vanesa Doning

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • JD
    Julio Daniele

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • FC
    Fernando Cigna

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • Diego Sabattini

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • Gonzalo Fernandez Reuter

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • Axel Kruger

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • LB
    Luciana Borgatello

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • JM
    Julieta Mansilla

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • MS
    Marcos Segovia

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • CA
    Carolina Andretich

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • MM
    Manuel Martinez

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • JD
    Juan Duarte

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • Gaston Atelman

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • Martin Fourcade

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • GA
    Gabriela Alija

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

  • LC
    Lucas Carranza

    Aft Arquitectos

    Argentina

Project updates

October 06, 2011 | winners for Latin America announced | Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sustainable construction as a key to better urban life

The winners of the 3rd International Holcim Awards competition for sustainable construction projects and visions from across Latin America have been announced. A total of USD 300,000 was presented to eleven outstanding projects at a ceremony in Buenos Aires. The winning projects mainly address the challenges of intensified urbanization – and range in scale from innovative community buildings through to broad master plans and infrastructure projects. 

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July 07, 2011 | Regional Jury Report – Latin America | Mexico City, Mexico

“A thorough study of the needs of the future users” – Holcim Awards Jury

The jury recognizes the mature quality of the overall project and its well-balanced architectural contextual qualities. The thorough study of the needs of the future users is seen as its strongest element together with the elegant transcription of modesty into the architectural language, using a simple plywood frame construction that creates a highly suitable human atmosphere.

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March 31, 2011 | Project Entry & Details | Rosario, Argentina

Project Entry 2011 for Region Latin America

The Trojan Library project was initiated by the municipal government of Rosario in response to the nation’s poor results in a 2009 worldwide evaluation of 15-year-olds in mathematics, science and reading. The strategy provides both the infrastructure of the library and a vast network of supplementary activities to generate flow-on use of the facility in Argentina’s third largest city with a population of 1.2 million. To achieve this goal in addition to the core function as library, a number of supplementary activities are proposed that take up the challenge of attracting potential library users from the 150,000 working-class inhabitants of the precinct. 

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Location

pin Rosario, Argentina

Rosario, Argentina