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Desarrollo Estratégico
Barrio Abajo













un proyecto de: KLUMPNER CHAIR OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN, ETH ZURICH
con el apoyo de:  SECO - SWISS STATE SECRETARIAT FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS






The Fábrica de Cultura: School of Arts and Popular Traditions complex in Barrio Abajo, a working-class neighborhood in Barranquilla, Colombia, is built into an abandoned Tobacco Factory, adding a new building and offering a public square for the Barrio. Located at the Caribbean coast, the Fábrica provides a ‘maker space’ for 2800 young people to learn the creative arts and popular traditions centered around the culture of the UNESCO World Heritage Carnival of Barranquilla. Operated by the Municipality, the facility offers arts and crafts education in - 11 disciplines music, dance, sculpture, dress making, painting poetry, theater, food production, digital film and audio techniques - to local residents, regardless of their social or economic background.

The design builts on vernacular patterns, behaviors and phenomena, utilizing local materials and processes and fabrication providing open building principles establishing a creative framework of stacked covered and uncovered spaces that can be modified and reprogrammed by users over time. Fábrica de Cultura offers a flexible building prototype wthat is beeing replicated in other parts of Barranquilla and Colombia as a whole using popular arts and culture as a strategy for inclusion throughout the region.

The Fábrica de Cultura is part of the larger Colombia Urban Transformation Program, a collaboration between the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), among others. The drawings and models for the project were shown at 17th International Architecture Biennale in Venice 2021.

1st Prototype
Fabrica de Cultura:
School of Arts and
Popular Traditions


City
Barranquilla, Co

Development:

construction 2018-2022

Client:
Secretariat of Culture, Heritage and Tourism 
Municipality of Barranquilla-Colombia

Surface area:
10'824 m2

Beneficiaries:
direct= +2'800 Students/year 
indirect= +10'000 community, visitors and artists EDA

Costs:
30'000 Mio COP
with a contribution of 23'000 Mio COP by the 
Sistema General de Regalías (SGR) / OCAD









Authors:
Hubert Klumpner, Diego Ceresuela-Wiesmann, Manuel Moreno Slagter

Team ETH Zurich:

Alfredo Brillembourg (till 2018), Pablo Levine Mardones, Alejandro Jaramillo Quintero , Blanca Garcia, Lucas Lerchs, Ruedi Baur, Vera Baur, Sergio Chirivella, Fabián Amaya, Sharon Picos, Andrés Guzmán, Philippe Block, Arno Schlueter

Team UniNorte Barranquilla:
Sergio Chirivella Espuig, Fabián Amaya, Sharon Picos
Structural Engineering: Prof. Andrés Fernando Guzmán