Antecedents of remodeling of Buenos Aires City
Impacts on Puerto Madero

1969 : Rector Plan of year 2000 - ORDAM / CONADE

In 1969 the Regional Office of the Metropolitan Area (ORDAM, in Spanish) was created, under the National Council of Development (CONADE). Under the direction of Architect Juan Ballester Peña, a program of "Systematization of the Central Regional Area" was formulated, based on projections of population growth made by CONADE.

This plan consolidated the orientation of its predecessor, in the way of staying away from the ambitious mega-plans, rejecting the "utopical opcions and the 'pure' urbanistic solutions", to focus on the existing staff, and establishing restructurations based on projected growth. Its linings extended to a period of 30 years, to the year 2.000.

Basicly, it proposed:

· To orientate the demographic growth in Greater Buenos Aires in NW-SE direction.
· To extend a wide road system that would accompany this decentralization process, interconnecting urban area and its liaison with the Central Area. Within this scheme a high speed train construction "Regional Express Net" (RER) was projected, that would link the main suburban centers of the Greater Buenos Aires, in NW-SE direction.
· To reserve important sectors of the Greater Buenos Aires as green and equipment areas. The proposal for the year 2.000 included to duplicate the parks in the Metropolitan Region.
· Within the Federal Capitol, the basic lines of the Regulator Plan of 1960 were kept.
Proposals for the Puerto Madero Area
· For the first time the idea of preserving the warehouses is introduced, pointing out that some of them "should be respected given the beauty that emerges from its noble construction".
· Installing a Metropolitan Central Park with areas for cultural activities for education and exhibitions.
· Residential Area between Dock 2 and the extension to the east of the Avenida Brasil.

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