Universidad de Ibagué
Location: Ibagué Tolima; Colombia
Year: 2019
Área (m2): 11.950
Directors: Jaime Eduardo Cabal – Jorge Emilio Buitrago
Design team: Cristian Camilo Rios – Melissa Arango – Milena Jaramillo – Sofia Patiño – Ricardo Zarate – Alejandro Pérez – Valeria Monsalve – Alexander Jiménez – Daniel Osorio.
Client: Universidad de Ibagué
Awards and publications: 1° Puesto Concurso público de anteproyecto arquitectónico para el “Diseño del edificio A” del Plan de Desarrollo Físico de la Universidad de Ibagué
Description:
The construction of Block A of the University of Ibagué represents the opportunity to materialize the first building of a contemporary, flexible campus articulated with the natural systems where it is implanted. Respecting the site of implantation is the starting point for the proposal, which seeks to harmonize an adaptable structure over time with the surrounding natural systems.
The building should allow for an experience in relation to its environment, where the architecture reflects an understanding of the territory. The project begins by recognizing the values of its location, its urban and natural potentials as part of an articulated system.
We understand architecture as a physical and cultural construction, capable of “”transforming a site into a place”” by discovering and enhancing its deepest sense, to give new value or meaning to what is found there. THE BUILDING IN FUNCTION OF THE LANDSCAPE.
The project arises from the interior-exterior relationship, from the dialogue with the natural place, from the understanding of its boundaries (enclosed enclosure), its position, delimitation, composition, and attribute of its enclosures (openings), as a synthesis of cultural and material facts that define a space in a specific and concrete place.
To achieve this, the building is positioned in a staggered manner in the clearing of the existing forest on the site (a footprint free of vegetation). This is conceived not as a single entity, but as a series of volumes that allow for an intimate relationship with the landscape, generating enclosures and multiple spatialities between them, their immediate and distant environment.
We start from the idea of making a building that could be fractionated, that is permeable, that through the disposition of its parts would generate transition and meeting spaces, a simple configuration that allows multiplying the number of usable facades in bioclimatic terms.