The Puerto Madero Museum & School of Architecture project is located in the heart of Buenos Aires. Puerto Madero is a new up and coming region of the city and has been considered to be one of the most successful urban renewal projects of our time. The site is located just south of the Calatrava pedestrian bridge, which carries people over the locks. The site itself was once a major shipping port. All the pollution from the ships and industrial buildings had chased the locals away. The project was designed to bring people back to the city, and make a museum of the city and for the city. I pictured the site as a social hub connecting all of the major elements of the city, the university to the south, the new apartments across the lock, and the city itself. My intentions of the project were to investigate the ambiguity of the ground plane and study the effects of figural objects placed in space. The museum portion of the project lays, what appears to be, “underground” and acts as a continuation of the green space that is interacting with the heavily trafficked urban edge. The edge toward the water is a more manicured and particularly programmed space with benches and side pockets for small private gatherings. On the site, there are four figural objects. Each figure has its own particular function. The largest of the figures acts as a circulation route up to the studio spaces and at each new studio level you are always presented with a view back out over the city. The tallest of the figures is what I have referred to as the “program pin,” connecting all of the programs (school, museum, and auditorium) and becoming an observation tower at the top. This tower displays both the old and new city as exhibitions of the museum.