Paseo del Buen Pastor

A cultural, recreational and open Space (Córdoba, Argentina)

Name	Paseo del Buen Pastor
Place	Nueva Córdoba - Córdoba
Country	Argentina
Topic	Public Space and Civic Identity
Author(s)	Liliana Baldi
Completion	2006 - 2007
Client	Córdoba Government
Project costs	15.000.000 pesos argentinos


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Rationale: Why is this case study interesting?

Like an urban project located in a historical place; this innovative and provocative project conserved the cultural values revitalizing the identity by means of a new relationship between architecture and society, offering places and activities inside a space-time frame for the use of the community.

Is interesting to study how the landscape design responds to and join together the urban context, the massive daily flow of the city and the public practise of Art, defined as an alive space to Culture and Recreation.

Author's perspective

To rescue and restorate the central Chapel together with the purpose to create new spaces around these are the main aims in this project. Keep the orginal shapes and materials with a Patrimonial value combined with new materials, light structures and transparent enveloping making a clear contrast and show the time difference.

The square is open to generate a great vision of the Sagrado Corazón´s Church (also known as de los Capuchinos) with an interesting neogotic architectural style.

The big musical and illuminate fountain with dancer waters shows every hour is the face off about the original cloister and punishment destination.

With a vanguard architecture and a regional reminder on the landscape design, the project wants to make an approach to know and share the past in order to become our selfs more convinced with the Identity today.

Landscape and/or urban context

Nueva Córdoba is the home of shopping malls like Patio Olmos, big buildings, pubs, disco clubs, squares, restaurants, supermarkets and other entertainment and commercial centers. This district includes very important buildings from large companies like Motorola and Intel.

Also there are many important cultural places like Palacio Ferreyra. It is a mansion built in 1916 based on plans by the French architect, Paul Sanson. It is located at the corner of Hipólito Yrigoyen and Chacabuco, and has now been restored and adapted to house the principal art gallery of the city.

Nueva Cordoba has a number of important avenues like Yrigoyen and Velez Sarsfield. Most of the university students who come from all the country live in this neighbourhood, several buildings are being built transforming this area in the fastest-growing area of the city.

El Paseo del Buen Pastor is situated in the heart of Nueva Córdoba town, in the triangle of Av. Yrigoyen, Buenos Aires and Obispo Oro.

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