Description:

The recovery of the SJDH presents an opportunity to reconcile a heritage ensemble of high historical and symbolic value for the country with the urban and landscape structure of Bogotá, within a transforming sector of the city center facing the challenge of rethinking itself under a vision of a contemporary metropolis that looks towards the future. The reopening of the SJDH is a commitment to reconnect and requalify the urban, heritage, and landscape relationships of the ensemble, responding to the networks and projects proposed in its area of influence and at the metropolitan level in line with its internal dynamics as a heritage ensemble.

The approach to achieve this starts with reorganizing and enhancing the unique characteristics of the public space and publicly used private space within the ensemble, understanding the SJDH as a piece that connects past, present, and future to the urban structure while respecting and enhancing memory, while actively connecting and contributing as part of the city, an ensemble that has remained in constant evolution for what is conceived as an open and flexible system projected from its history to adapt to new times.

Historically, the SJDH has materialized different moments and conceptions of the city. The work carried out from the PEMP clearly depicts how its conception as an ensemble has been modified over time and has been negatively affected by various internal and external factors. The difficulty of adapting to the transformations of the territory and its various actors means that today, the SJDH is perceived as an isolated piece deteriorated by abandonment, but with high potential. The project, therefore, does not seek to be a nostalgic reconstruction of a past moment; it is understood as an opportunity to project into the future from the recognition and respect for the history of this heritage ensemble.