Masquespacio presents its first project in Colombia for the sunglasses & frames brand Breathe.
The first design by Masquespacio in the studio’s creative director Ana Hernández’s native city Bogotá consists in the creation of the new store from the sunglasses and frames brand. The initial aim this way was to create the new identity for the third store of the Colombian brand.
The Center for Cancer Research and Treatment project promoted by the Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Foundation is located to the north of the city of Bogotá surrounded by green zones and with the hills of Los Cerros as the backdrop. The building faces the mountains, maximizing access to the views and creating a sequence of interior and exterior spaces that reconnect the patient to natural surroundings that, due to the favorable climatic conditions, can be used all year round.
The reflection or formulated question in this project was focused on how to design a tower in height that simultaneously allowed compact units and diversity.
For this proposal it was chosen to standardize the typologies of housing. In contrast the façade was used, so in its depth would permit the appearance of some balconies and various windows.
The facade, is configured through a system of organization of different elements of wall-drawer types: “C”, “V”, “L” or “I” generating a diversity or “dynamism-static of volume”, which in essence configures a large mass of perforated clay that promotes a great variety of how the light and solar shade are read. As a complement and aiming to contribute to the urbanity of a sector in process of development, a triangular square was provided to articulate the contiguous streets, damping and linking the tower with the city, and nuances the narrowness of the roads and platforms of access.
Design Team: Francisco Ospina, Andrés Gutiérrez, Iván Castro, Santiago Ballen, Juan Rubio, Pantoja Architects, Isabel Saffón, Andrea Mozzato, Christian Durango, María Echeverri, Esteban Lozada, Ixa Bachman.
Students: David Alsina, Susana Garzón, Felipe Torres, Santiago Vásquez.
Interior Design (lobby and common areas): Atelier R+R Arquitectos – Arq. Beatriz Robledo.
History portrays that the architecture and structure of a building have been the same for many centuries generating great constructions. However in the last decades these two concepts have been detached from each other, generating new opportunities thus affecting their relationship of integrality.
In the particular case of 8111 we were motivated by the idea of testing this fusion so we proposed a diagrid type structure system, which allows the structure to be the expression of the same architecture due to the following reasons: The first is that being a system associated with diagonals and not with straight columns and beams in between slabs, it is much more demanding in the way in which structure and function must be integrated, especially so that the diagonals do not affect the flexibility of space. On the other hand, the efficiency of the diagrid mesh systems is closely linked to its application in the perimeter of the building in such a way that it becomes the façade and image of its architecture; a very singular and unique image as it distances itself from the traditional solution of porticoes. Another particular aspect is its materiality. These systems are mainly solved with metallic structures and, less common but also widely recurrent, in concrete structures. In the case of 8111 concrete was chosen as its main material where its expression is more marked and distinctive, resulting in a unique architecture that consolidates and takes advantage of its predominant location to generate an iconic building in the city.
ÁGORA-BOGOTÁ will not just be like any convention centre used by sporadic visitors who have little contact with the city, but aims to ascend to the category of a public building infused into all citizens’ imagination. Therefore, all efforts have been concentrated on meeting collective as well as specialized demands. First and foremost, it offers an image which represents the aspirations of a society in transformation and that resembles an environmental sensitivity and technological ambition which inscribes the building in today’s concerns. The specialized demands focus on practical aspects such as circulation systems, both public, delivery and personnel, easy and comprehensible; an invisible but hierarchical and interconnected distribution of all the internal services that embodies the logistics’ scheme of the building; and a concept of flexibility that accepts the programming of very diverse formats, from a concert to a trade fair, from a congress to a film festival of from a grand banquet to a chess championship.
Team: Carmen Antón (eH), Juan Carlos Ardila (BA), David Barbosa (BA), Jaime Barrera (BA), Julián Beltrán (BA), Camilo Brito (BA), David Caballero (BA), Laura Dorado (BA), María Franco (eH), Raúl García (eH), David Gómez (BA), Airam González (eH), Iván Guerrero (eH), Andrés Gutiérrez (BA), Sergio Jiménez (BA), Víctor Lacima (eH), Juan Fernando Martínez (BA), Margarita Martínez (eH), Ana María Noriega (BA), Juan Camilo Ortegón (BA), Mª Ángeles Peñalver (eH), Abraham Piñate (eH), Juan Reyes (BA), María Ríus (eH), Alberto Roa (BA), Luis Ángel Rivera (BA), Beatriz Salinas (eH), Paula Sopó (BA), Martha Sosa Dias (eH), Catalina Venegas (BA)
Directors: Ramón Bermúdez, Gonzalo Rivas, Stan Van der Maas
The comprehension of a metropolitan scale is fundamental at the moment of thinking in an integral architectonical answer. More than solving a need for the expansion of the hospital, the project should commit to solve more of what it is requested, taking advantage of the good location of the intervention area. The project is located in a place in the city where two of the main avenues: 9th and 7th avenue almost connect. Our proposal looks forward to be a diagonal connector and work as a catalyzer for new flows, activities and human relationships.
The Center for Cancer Research and Treatment project promoted by the Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Foundation aims to provide the city of Bogotá with a specialized state-of- the-art cancer treatment center that meets the highest international standards.
In addition to the services provided by the Hospital with its approximately 280 beds there will be a research center to make the latest medical advances available to staff and patients.
Tags: Bogota, Colombia Comments Off on CTIC – Centro de Tratamiento e Investigación sobre Cáncer Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo in Bogotá, Colombia by RAFAEL DE LA-HOZ Arquitectos
The largest single urban intervention to date in Bogotá, this master plan has the potential to reimagine the way Bogotanos relate to their city. The 72-hectare site revisits the idea of compactness and diversity in the city through the creation of districts within a network of intermediate public parks, each with its own family of mixed-used buildings that in turn define shared private open spaces. Informed by typological research into existing forms of collective housing in Colombia and an analysis of the street grids of the surrounding neighborhoods, the master plan proposes a framework for action. The design acknowledges the reality of Bogotá as a shifting urban territory and proposes a finely articulated spatial strategy of built and unbuilt zones that enables growth and development.
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