A roof for Barrancabermeja´s Parks
Architecture ist action
A roof over a sports area can do a lot. This one is located in Barrancabermeja, a town with 191,000 inhabitants in the north of Colombia. It’s not just about protection from the weather, but also about social interaction.
“Architecture is action” say the architects.
Barrancabermeja
In Barrancabermeja, a municipality on the banks of the river Magdalena, in Colombia’s department of Santander, stands this open pavilion containing recreational and sports facilities. The 7,000-square-meter public center is protected by a modular structure raised on slender columns, facilitating future enlargements.
The system of elongated rhombi has openings to filter in sunlight and incorporate ventilators, sprinklers, and sound and lighting devices.
Prototype
This projects aim is to create an open space that gives true relevance to the role of the community in the construction of a city.
A modular system is composed from an elongated rhombus type piece that multiplies and unites in a base module or a complementary module, making an adaptable and progressively growing and transforming structure. A vast generative ceiling emerges from a series of connected and raised pieces that allow existing and unique realities of its location to infiltrate within its interiors.
A sequence of physical perceptions based on natural factors such as humidity, heat, cold or luminosity accompanied by controlled elements like light filtration, fans and aspersers, or sound and water implementations, create a spontaneous atmosphere that make people sensible to their own bodies relationship with nature.
Structure
The structure acts as a tool for promoting any sort of activities ranging from sportive, ludic, economic, academic and cultural, to social, taking advantage of its open kind that suggests interactions between people and with nature.
The design is defined by the trees’ and bushes’ shape, which determine if the structure bends, expands or wraps around them.
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Project data
Architect
El Equipo Mazzanti
Calle 69 No. 10 – 06
Bogotá
Kolumbien
Client
Municipio de Barrancabermeja
Opening
2016
Team
Giancarlo Mazzanti, Carlos Medellín, Humberto Mora, Simón Escabi, Juan Carlos Zapata, Luz Rocío Lamprea, Juan Carlos Zapata, Laura Pachón, Lorena Mendoza, Manuela Dangond, Andrés Melo, Juan Esteban Parra, Julian Quiroz, Pablo Maal
Tragwerk: Nicolás Parra
Photos
Alejandro Arango — Pequeño Robot
Dirección de fotografía: Mariana Bravo
Text
El Equipo Mazzanti
Plans & Visualisations
El Equipo Mazzanti
Die Architekten von El Equipo Mazzanti sehen das so: „Architektur ist Action. Wir induzieren Handlungen, Geschehnisse und Beziehungen, aus denen wir Formen, Muster und offene materielle Organisationen entwickeln, die wiederum sozialen Zielen folgen. Damit wollen wir neue Verhaltensweisen und neue Dynamiken auslösen, die Menschen ermutigen, auf eine Art und Weise zu handeln, die sie sich niemals vorstellen konnten.“
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