Patagonia Flotante

Patagonia Flotante is a mirrored arborescent tower that floats in the water, articulating an upper section of towers and a lower section of lower counter-towers, hidden under the water. The set of towers is structured in three hierarchically decreasing iterative ramifications: the body that defines the central tower, the sub-basins that define the first ring of towers and the sub-sub-basins that consolidate the second and last ring. The basined towers decrease in height towards the edges, emphasizing the hierarchy between the central tower and the end towers, defining differentiated slenderness given by the variation in height. The towers build opposing profiles from the terraces of spiral growth, consolidating an exteriority of public and private terraces at each level, from terraces at the ends of wings and terraces at the confluence between wings. The enclosures between towers constitute sheltered navigable bays that form the access points to the building through a marina infrastructure. The project is conceived as a floating architectural object, a building mass that builds its own condition of isolation through a surrounding volume of water that frames it, consolidating itself as a self-sufficient, self-contained and autonomous project that seeks to maximize the idea of a tourist excursion, in which the access is defined through a marina access infrastructure at level zero after navigating Lake Nahuel Huapi. The isolation of the project on the lake reinforces the tower-excursion condition, understanding that reaching it is an action in itself, and it cannot be accidental, in addition to consolidating it as an object that can be perceived from long distances, blurring its real scale. The aquatic condition also makes it possible to hide a section of towers, strengthening the condition of partial perceptibility. The project seeks to condense tourist, domestic, commercial and productive, housing and office programs, stressing in height the coexistence of both public and private programs and blurring the hierarchical social stratification, marked by the pyramiding of the towers that implies the reduction of the plan area in height, through the control of horizontal and vertical circulation.