VIP Lounge Movistar Arena

  • Prize
    Winner in Architectural Design Event Space
  • Company/Firm
    Hitzig Militello Arquitectos
  • Lead Designer
    Arch. Leonardo Militello Arch. Fernando Hitzig
  • Architect
    Arch. Marina Alves Carneiro Arch. Sofía García Albanell
  • Construction Company
    Technical Development: MSH Group
  • Photo Credit
    Alejandro Peral
  • Location
    Movistar Arena, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Project Date
    10-10-24
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Unlike most gastronomic projects, in which the user is well defined beforehand, either by the age range, the gastronomic proposal, location and opening hours, or even by the value of the food. In this project none of these variables was predetermined. This is a space that is meant to be used for a premium gastronomic experience before the Arena’s shows, which means the user can change each night (depending on the show and the musical proposal).

There is a single variable in common to all of these users: the passion for music. From this arises the most important premise of the project: to “freeze music”, to convert that abstract, ethereal and ephemeral emotion into a geometrizable and constructible envelope.

Based on this idea we studied the geometries of sound waves, trying to find patterns that would allow us to achieve an interior envelope that would identify the space with musical movement; on the one hand loose and organic, but, on the other hand, very methodical and mathematical. We immediately understood that the project had to be resolved by integrating only two elements: metal and light. The project consists of this unique, continuous piece, made up of metal ribs and scal