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Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution

Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango

SIETE VUELTAS RURAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

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ARCHITECTS
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LOCATION
Vda. Siete Vueltas, San Juan de Urabá, Antioquia, Colombia

PHOTOGRAPHS
Alejandro Arango, Julián Castro

PROJECT YEAR
2015

CATEGORY
Elementary & Middle School

MANUFACTURERS
Corona, Indural, Manoplas, Muma

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Felipe Mesa, Federico Mesa

BUILDER
Soluciones Constructivas

CLIENT
Fundación Fraternidad

DESIGN TEAM
Carlos Blanco, Esteban Hincapié, Laura Kate Correa, Maria Clara Osorio

Text description provided by architect.

In an arid landscape and an almost flat land of the municipality of San Juan de Urabá, this school was built replacing previous buildings in very poor condition.

Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango
Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango
Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango

Around a wide area of games and the soccer field, modular buildings form a polygonal perimeter, with corridors to the interior, and silent facades to the outside.

A frame structure in reinforced concrete, receives perforated block walls and metal roof beams.

Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango
Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango

All single-story classrooms have cross ventilation, and enjoy the distant landscape. From a distance, the building behaves like a singular mark in the landscape.


Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango
Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango
Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango
Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango
Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango
Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango


Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango
Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango


Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango


Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango
Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution
© Alejandro Arango

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