A projecting exterior staircase zig-zags up the perforated steel facade of the Lucila Rubio de Laverde Faculty in Bogotá, Colombia, designed by Peruvian apply Nómena Arquitectura.
Positioned subsequent to the Jaboque wetlands within the Engativa district, the varsity is a part of a programme by the Mayor of Bogotá to ship 35 new public colleges inside strolling distance of poorer neighbourhoods.
To mediate between the adjoining street and the encompassing high-rise buildings, Nómena Arquitectura mixed a cloistered, brick-clad kind with a slender, six-storey block shielded by screens of perforated steel that management air flow and lightweight.
Whereas the taller block incorporates lecture rooms solely to be used by the varsity, the auditoriums, eating corridor and sports activities amenities within the decrease two-storey block had been designed to be usable by the area people exterior of faculty hours.
“The design displays the dedication to accessible training and a resilient constructed atmosphere tailored to the wants of the group,” defined the studio.
“The cloister kinds an lively and porous edge that gives part of this system for use by the inhabitants of the world, in favour of an integrative expertise of the general public house and structure with the group,” it added.
Giant concrete staircases that double as seating areas hyperlink the 2 ranges of the varsity’s podium, every of which is organised round a sports activities courtroom ignored by the encompassing canteen and occasions areas.
Buffering the doorway from the street is an exterior plaza, which could be linked to the varsity’s courtyard by way of a collection of sliding glass doorways.
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Within the bigger constructing, lecture rooms that line the northern edge are linked by an open hall and are damaged up by the insertion of double-height atria with areas of full-height glazing and balconies overlooking the Bogotá river.
This block is traversed by way of an exterior, projecting staircase shaded by black steel bars, which hyperlinks areas for the youngest youngsters on the decrease ranges to these for older youngsters on the prime.
Dealing with the river, the block presents a facade of pink brick reduce by ribbon home windows and the varsity’s atria, whereas overlooking the central cloister the constructing has been completed in perforated steel that creates a translucent impact.
“This aspect is proposed as a clear quantity, which contains double-height intermediate areas and translucent inside planes enable the school rooms to increase into areas and not using a outlined use,” defined the studio.
“The inside facade aircraft makes use of micro-perforated steel panels to make sure air flow and produce gentle inside in a managed method with out shedding transparency,” it added.
Different tasks not too long ago accomplished in Bogotá embrace the primary of a pair of skyscrapers by the late British architect Richard Rogers, designed within the distinctive high-tech model that he helped set up within the Seventies.
The photographer is by Jairo Llano.
