Article source: [eCV] estudio Claudio Vekstein_Opera Publica

The work celebrates the agrarian rebellion of small rural tenants, mostly Italian and Spanish immigrants, known as “El Grito de Alcorta” (1912). With epicenter in the town of Alcorta, it spread throughout the Santa Fe province and later the country, giving rise to the Argentine Agrarian Federation (FAA). Working with FAA Assembly through participatory collaboration involving the Alcorta Commune, the Santa Fe Province and the Federal Government, the memorial not only evokes the farmers, their work and struggles, the use and possession of the land, and the cooperativism, but also actualizes them in a daily gathering space for farmers and citizens, overcoming the passive, reverent monuments of the past.

Image Courtesy © Arch. Federico Cairoli

• Architects: [eCV] estudio Claudio Vekstein_Opera Publica
• Project: Memorial Space and Monument to the 100th Anniversary of the Alcorta Farmers Revolt
• Location: Route 90 km. 78, Commune of Alcorta, Santa Fe Province, Argentina
• Photography: Arch. Federico Cairoli, Sergio Gustavo Esmoris
• Clients: Argentine Agrarian Federation, Government of Santa Fe Province, Commune of Alcorta, Government of the Argentine Republic
• Project Manager: Arch. Carolina Telo
• Project Assistants: Archs. Mariana Pons, Pedro Magnasco, Mercedes Peralta, Martin Flugelman, Santiago Tolosa, Stephen Wanderer, Susan Franco, Alisha Rompre, Elizabeth Menta, Dolores Cremonini, Maca Cerquera, Pamela Galan, Shaghayegh Vaseghi
• Renders: Arch. Hernán Landolfo
• Landscape Architecture Consultants: Arch. Elena Rocchi, Lucia Schiappapietra and Teresa Rozados
• Assistants: Cecilia Chiesa, Clara Miguens
• Contractors: Coirini S.A., Structure Contractor: Arch. Héctor Malo
• Construction Management: Province Department of Architecture and Engineering (DIPAI), Special Projects Unit, Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Santa Fe Province.
• Land Area: 7,500 m2
• Built Area: 400 m2
• Year: (2011-2018)

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