1.0 PROJECT INFORMATION

Leon de Greiff Library Park - La Ladera

Medellin, Colombia

2007

ALCALDÍA DE MEDELLÍN

Andrés Sarmiento, Freddy Pantoja, Iván Ucrós, Juan Manuel Gil, Pedro Saa, Alejandro piña, Camilo Mora, Gustavo Vásquez,

Sergio Gomez

6.800 sqm

Cultural, educational

2.0 ABSTRACT

The aim is to establish a project that enables the biggest amount of urban connections and the development of public spaces. To achieve this, there are several proposals such as enabling the roofing of the building as public space, empowering meeting places and developing viewing-points which overlook the city.

The model consists of a system conformed by three contained, rotated, squared modules that turn, adapting themselves to the landscape and the view and one curved module that unites and relates the other modules and that, in addition. It allows the usage of communal facilities as small open spaced theatres, viewing-points, small plazas and sport fields when placing them on the rooftop, leaving plain borders as vacuums inside the lot and thus enabling their external use. We propose a management program between the EDU and the Culture Secretariat called "Film, Music and Theatre in my quarter". This will allow the usage of the above mentioned roofing as auditoriums so that every two weeks a cultural show can be taken to each quarter.

The place presents itself as a green viewing-point and a territory of connections between the lower and upper zones of the quarter, which are actually used as areas for sport activities. The project we propose will redefine the existing paths and empower the creation of shaded plazas on the library's rooftop. As a result, it will not only multiply the connections because the building will be an obliged path, but it will create more and more events as people intertwine in the public spaces provided around the library. More than a transformation, we want to re-interpret the space so that it can be recreated into a symbolic place for the city.

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