Architecture is action
A roof for Barrancabermeja´s Parks
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.
Architect
El Equipo Mazzanti
Calle 69 No. 10 — 06
Bogotá
Colombia
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
Structural engineer
Nicolás Parra
Client
Municipio de Barrancabermeja
Author
El Equipo Mazzanti
Photograph
Alejandro Arango — Pequeño Robot
Dirección de fotografía: Mariana Bravo
Opening
2016
Video
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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.
El Equipo Mazzanti
The architects El Equipo Mazzanti state: “Architecture is action. We induce actions, happening and relationships, which allows us to develop forms, pattern and open material organizations that act in the social operations construction. With this we don´t refer to the application of functional authoritarian diagrams but the action that trigger new day to day interactions that are able to trigger behaviors and new dynamics, encouraging people to act in ways they´ll never think to act.”