Temporary Commercial Pavilion - Visitor Center

This is a commercial building of a temporary nature that marks the initial milestone of a large-scale real estate development in a suburban private neighborhood context.

Social interaction to create affinity and aspirational expectations constitute its main purpose, transcending the strictly material.

It is conceived as a trigger: an architectural piece that leads the visitor towards the experience and projection of the future development in a context of the Mendoza foothills.

Therefore, its permeability and visual openness enhance its vocation, inviting discovery and anticipation of the life that is about to be born in the place.

It thus acts as a cornerstone that, after fulfilling its function, dematerializes to initiate the definitive stage of the project.

Its implantation, strategically decided at the corner, maximizes exposure and openness, enhancing the relationship with the suburban and social context.

This plot, part of a property of approximately 10,000 m² intended for development, is of a temporary nature, has a rectangular geometry, and presents a constant slope along its shorter sides.

The spatial proposal articulates three areas—open (public space), semi-covered (intermediate space), and covered (private space)—through glazed carpentry, galleries, and sunshades that, in addition to providing environmental protection, maximize the relationships among them.

The roof plane is not conceived as a passive element: folds and vertical gestures highlight programmed areas and turn them into recognizable landmarks from the environment, while accompanying the spatial sequence and the transition between scales and planes.

In urban terms, the elevation above the sidewalk and street creates a new plane of social relationships, accessible by a floating staircase that leads visitors to a different level. The spatial sequence—public at ground level, intermediate, and elevated private—finds its vital core in the intermediate space, where interaction and gathering are favored.

In its tectonic expression, the Visitor Center manifests a modular, lightweight, and permeable character, with a metal structure, neutral tones, vertical patterns, transparencies, and reflections.

The whole establishes a synergistic relationship with the place, balancing independence and interdependence between the organic and the inorganic.

When it is removed, it will not leave a void, but a territory full of meaning, where each visitor will have traced—if only in an intangible way—their own projection of life. Thus, the ephemeral becomes a footprint, and the intangible, the true material of this first foundational gesture.