Edificio Del Plata is an abandoned municipal building in central Buenos Aires. Given the publicity and accessibility of the site, this proposal suggests a transformation for a career-oriented urban learning facility that aims to reduce the current mismatch between education and occupation by providing information, certificate training, and career consulting services. The building provides different scales of learning facilities from classrooms for small groups, labs, and production studios, to auditoriums for hundreds of people. Public and private are considered not as binary but a spectrum of experiences. The building promotes a new style of learning with no time limits and commitments. The structural strategy includes reinforcing existing columns, inserting new systems, and adding structurally independent volumes and a new core.
