1.0 PROJECT INFORMATION

INVEMAR research center competition

Santa Marta

2010

INVEMAR

Andrés Sarmiento, Felipe Cuellar, Juan Manuel Gil, Lorena Gonzales, Luis Alejandro Carvajal, María Elena Garcés, Néstor Gualteros, Santiago Ramos, Stephany Zapata, Susana Sumoza.

Educative, innovation center

2.0 ABSTRACT

The project´s form appears from the coralline system, not as a metaphor but as an order structure that possess an organizational intelligence. This allows that the project can act and grow the same way the corals do, as they are composed by polyps that are autonomous structures and when they are added they form what we know as coral and this way the coral reefs, home of many marine organisms. This order structure is what interest us for the composition of the project composed by pieces (rings), allowing it to grow on time and harbor new ecosistems, sheltering plant and animal species.

The place is stated as a big botanical garden that has to relate along the green pathways, the mountain ecosistems and the ocean coast generating the ecological restoration of native species from the tropical dry forest, that is actually in danger.

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