Description:

Campo Verde Kindergarten is an important component within what has been consolidated as a new educational hub at the urban level, in the Bosa locality, south of Bogotá.

It is located at the edge of the consolidated urban fabric, where the city ends and the savannah begins. The proposed architecture is sensitive to this ambiguous situation, establishing a dialogue with the distant landscape, the hills, the savannah, the river, and at the same time generating a clear position towards the street and urban morphology.

The project is conceived as a series of 12 x 12 meter volumes that are stacked around a courtyard that opens to the landscape. Each of these volumes acts as a container for the main learning environments and covered extension areas, enabling the implementation of pedagogical strategies according to the interests and stage of development of the children. The garden is understood as an open system.

The infrastructure is designed and conceived to carry out activities that enhance the integral development of early childhood. The academic extension areas that are part of each of the cores are an essential part of the learning system, therefore they are transformable, multipurpose spaces that allow the development of various activities (library, exhibition center, workshop, mini laboratory, etc.), contributing to the formative structure of the institution, acting as transition places with the outside, allowing children to observe what happens outside the classroom.

The relationship between the different volumes generates variations that enrich the spatial system of the project, creating courtyards, terraces, and extension spaces for play. These are interconnected through double heights, interior balconies, thus maximizing points of exchange and control between users and members of the educational institution. This allows the formation of micro-landscapes within the complex, adding diversity to the curricular proposals and generating different pedagogical approaches.

The Green Field Kindergarten seeks to respond to the context in a coherent and generous manner, contributing to the urban and landscape structure in which it is located, fostering active and collaborative pedagogical relationships at different scales through flexible spaces connected to exterior areas and relationship areas that promote learning through encounter.