With a set of interrelated projects, we aim at a redefinition of the banal in-between space with its Mc Building style constructions that dominate the urban/suburban landscape in Costa Rica and other sprawled and car dependent societies worldwide; we call it "©architecture".
In a city of permanent change where no place seems permanent and where orientation is organized along landmarks that may no longer exist: how do you create iconographic places and cognitive reference points? What is the meaning of built heritage and identity in a culture that is providing a neo-colonial solution for the buildings of its favorite chicken fast food chain?
This adaptation of Mexican architect Legoretta’s design and its transformation into a bank branch examines the potential of a single building as well as its initial context that is redefined as a new financial district in San Pedro.
Credit
Oliver Schütte with Jaime Rouillon Arquitectura.
San Jose, Costa Rica, 2005 – 2006.