Adaptative Reuse of the NA-MA Department Store in Podgorica Competition

1rst Prize, proposal by Monoblock + LABA + Estudio Pieza

https://monoblock.cc / @labaarquitectos / https://pieza.com.ar/

Buenos Aires, Argentina

In the adaptive reuse project of the former NA-MA stores, the most compelling challenge arises before addressing the usual issues of new construction—programmatic and technical speculations, questions of form and design, or debates on style. In this sense, the guiding questions for the project are: How should the building’s current state be assessed? Which elements possess the qualities that justify their preservation? What latent capacities of the building remain intact despite the passage of time? How can the circulation of a building conceived for other uses be reinterpreted?

*text by the authors