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Primary project reel and presentation excerpts
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Additional presentation footage and audience documentation
Thesis is a speculative proposal for a peacekeeping base distributed across an Andean site, designed to accommodate three battalions under the geopolitical framework of the then-emerging UNASUR. Developed as Alejandro Rodríguez's final university project, the scheme explores territorial occupation through a network of structures embedded in the topography rather than through conventional military architecture.
The project was accompanied by an immersive presentation system: the spatial design was translated into a real-time 3D environment and exhibited through VR headsets, stereo projections, and navigable visualisations. Circulation, landscape integration, and sustainability shaped the formal decisions throughout.
Images
HQ roof plan
Master plan
Aerial render
Site render
Base overview
Exterior render
Façade study
Atrium skylight
Interior render
Light study
Corridor render
Interior circulation
Housing module
Composite view
Projection view
Projection detail
VR demonstration
VR operator
Viewer test
Participant
After presentation
Event candid
Conversation
Event photo
Collaborators
B&W candid
Portrait
Car candid
Audience
Auditorium
Workstation
Stage presentation
Speaker on stage
Core development
Alejandro Rodríguez
Concept, architectural design, thesis development
Jorge Manzitti
Programming, real-time systems
Federico Rodríguez
Video editing, music, signage design
Gonzalo "Chino" Alvarez
Design collaboration
Salome Vorfas
Photography, art advisory, support
Cristian del Negro
Music, Perla Marina crew
Nicolás Montecchiari
Music, Perla Marina crew
Paula Ianuzzi
Signage design, Perla Marina crew
Advisory and production
Colonel Pedro Amarfil
Military advisor
Mario Rodriguez (Silo)
Geopolitics, history and philosophy advisor
Oscar García
Architectural advisor
Marcela Brjklacic
Unofficial architectural advisory
Iván Brjklacic
Unofficial architectural advisory
Virginia Ianuzzi
Perla Marina crew
Matías Lezeta
Perla Marina crew
Claudio Fernández
Perla Marina crew
Ana Luisa Cremaschi
Production and financial support