RIBERA RIO LUJAN
Typology
CORPORATE + MASTER PLAN
Area
69.300sq m
Users
5.500
Status
Project
Architects
German Hauser, Daniela Ziblat
Year
2013
Program
Refuncionalization and enhancement of the bank
Location
Luján, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
The city of Luján is located some 70 kilometers northwest of the city of Buenos Aires. It has one of the most important basilicas of Argentina, which constitutes Lujan’s main tourist attraction. Every year, the basilica welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors, particularly during the annual pilgrimage of worshippers.
Luján features the lengthy Luján River Bank and the city frequently suffers floods due to its overflow. Our proposal is designed to offer a River Park by providing different uses and qualifying the brink of river. In this way, we seek to exploit the city’s potential and turn it into a tourist pole making the most of the visits it receives thanks to the basilica.
The intervention poses 5 axes to structure it:
We propose the relocalization of certain uses that are the sector’s protagonists: bus station, parking lots, and municipal buildings.
Pedestrianisation
The existing pedestrian section would spread into the urban fabric to ensure the connection to the area where the Basilica is located, and to the river shore.
Linear Park
We propose a linear park that features leisure and gastronomy areas, while offering a path along the pedestrian walkways and bike lanes.
New Programs
We propose the integration of a hotel and an open-air shopping center.
Water
We understand and work taking into account the city’s reality with its frequent river flooding. We therefore work along two lines. On the one hand, focusing on the reconstruction of the existing polder, on the other with interventions that might profit from this situation.
We have designed wetlands and building areas that are either floating or raised, and has ground floors that contemplate different scenarios.
