Gramalote Community Center

Public competition for a community center in Gramalote, Santader, Colombia.

The Gramalote Community Center is a system of convergence that articulates human geography and landscape through a specific architecture.

This specific architecture is organized from a geography of activity strata, from the ascending order of the program, from the most public - a covered plaza, a large threshold- to small enclosures of a more private character, for study and concentration, on the upper levels.

The geography and its mineral condition are materialized from different colors of adobes and expressed spatially from vertical sequences of full and empty circular spaces, which make the interior space a space of porous character.

The definition and spatial character is organized from thick walls, vertical ventilation systems (patios that cross all floors) and horizontal ventilation systems (fretwork).