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Territory Research for Creation

Kalapa: From Territory to Detail

First Price Architecture/Master Plan competition

2019-2020 

 

Media: Landscape+Architecture of Kalapa Learning Community 

State: Master Plan and Architecture Design. Waiting for license approval

Lead Design Team: Santiago Pradilla, Laura Vispe, Luisa Brando

Consultants: Mateo Hernandez, Antonio Caro, ZuluArch

Collaborators: Pedro Martinez + Jose Lopez+Juan Jose Bacca

Client: Kalapa Holistic School

Location: Sopo, Bogotá D.C, Colombia

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Kalapa is situated in the Sabana de Bogotá, a rural area with increased deforestation rate (85% of its native forest has been replaced by agriculture and urbanism). The challenge of designing for a holistic school with a non conventional philosophy is thought as an opportunity to rethink how architecture can respond to a territorial problematic. Working with an ecologist we found how the line of encounter between two ecologies (savanna and native forest) is a place rich in biodiversity. To revert the deforestation tendency and multiply this line, the master plan establishes 8 native environments where each buildings sit between two, becoming a membrane that reinforces their ecological and physical attributes. Nature, students and construction are a dynamic system that grow in correlation.

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MASTER PLAN

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MASTER PLAN 8 ENVIRONMENTS: NATIVE FORESTS

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OAK FOREST MODULE

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FLOWER FOREST MODULE. SECTION

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ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN TWO ENVIRONMENTS

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FLOWER FOREST+ORCHARD MODULES

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FRUIT FOREST MODULE+ ENTRANCE

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ENTRANCE

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CLASSROOM HALL

CLASSROOM

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