Estación de servicio Echeverría y Paseo Peatonal

The project starts with a competition called by YPF to strategically review the gas station concept, expanding the usual functions (refueling, mechanical assistance and coffee shop) with new paradigms of sustainability, communication and articulation with the community. It is located in a unique block in the city of Buenos Aires, in continuity with the public parks near the Río de la Plata coast, and forms a square with services organized in a network of nodes that support both the activities carried out by walkers, runners, and cyclists in the public green corridor as well as the strategic vehicular link between the interior neighborhoods and the highway network that connects the metropolitan area. An extensive gallery is built on this very active ground, which is integrated into the continuity of the park trees, now including the artificial shade of a system of columns and large-span reinforced concrete slabs, combined to house a variety of facilities, and support a vegetal cover conceived as an ecological patch that reintroduces autochthonous plant communities displaced by the landscaping model of the 19th century. The enclosed programs consist of two volumes of transparent, translucent or opaque modular curtain wall, which surround the double or single height spaces, with mezzanines hanging from the roof.