1.0 PROJECT INFORMATION

Gerardo Molina School

Bogota, Colombia

2007

SED

Andrés Sarmiento, Edgar Mazo, Jorge Gómez, Juan Manuel Gil, Manuel Mendoza.
Competition: Alberto Aranda, Ana María González, Carlos Melo, Constanza Saade, Gina Acevedo.

Sergio Gómez, Veronica Restrepo, Alejandra Loreto, Iwan Baan

6500 sqm

Educational

2.0 ABSTRACT

More than an isolated school, the aim is to develop an urban project that encourages new sectorial centralities within the building, using the library, the auditorium, the cafeteria and the support rooms for neighborhood activities. The project is understood as a modular system that is capable of adapting itself to the most diverse situations. Composed by a set of chained pieces, able to mix and act depending on the place, the amount of sunlight, the topography and the events.

As the Project will be winding and turning it will be opening to the city, leaving space for small squares and exterior parks for public usage, leaving behind the bars and walls that stereotyped education institutions as closed spaces. The conformation of small squares and green spaces with trees on the surrounding streets, together with the closing modules defining and marking direct access.

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