Desarrollo Estratégico
Barrio Abajo
con el apoyo de: SECO - SWISS STATE SECRETARIAT FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
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.
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