The first requirement that MALBA (Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires) must address is to be inclusive, receptive, and friendly to citizenry as a whole. The city must enter the museum, and with it the visitors, aiming to transform the museum into a series of public plazas. Visitors must find an environment that is familiar to them, planned with them in mind, clarifying that contemporary art is ultimately not anything more than the creative expression of some people who have the same preoccupations as the visitors. In this dialogue between the visitors and the art, the moments of contact with the building play a crucial role: crossing the threshold, buying a ticket, leaving a coat in the cloakroom, receiving information or having a drink in its informal cafeteria. To achieve this, the project resorts to a set of everyday materials, close to industrial aesthetics or DIY, to manipulate them with simple assembly techniques. The design unifies all the activities prior to or after the visit to the exhibition halls in a single open space, with a continuous floor that evokes the concrete of the sidewalks, on which a series of small wooden constructions are distributed, profiles of steel and aluminum and little else...[+]