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Los Nogales School

Los Nogales School
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LOS NOGALES SCHOOL 

Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos

LOCATION
Bogotá, Colombia

YEAR 
2009

DESIGN TEAM
Daniel Bonilla, Andrés Gutiérrez, Adriana Hernández, David Kita, Rodrigo Montoya, Juliana Lozano, Mauricio Patiño, Cristian Echeverría

ASESORÍA BIOCLIMÁTICO
Jorge Ramírez

DISEÑO DE ILUMINACIÓN
Claudia Zuloaga

DELINEANTE
Melissa Betancourt

DIRECCIÓN GENERAL
EXACTA Proyecto Total

DISEÑO ESTRUCTURAL
IPI

Text description provided by architect.

The Arts Centre is building where arts and music are conceived as a pluralistic context; a meeting place, a destination and especially, an inspiring place. The project underwent numerous revisions and refinements of its content and curriculum, over several years, before arriving at its final design.

The resultant building has an interesting dual relationship, where the first floor is used for music and dance, and the second floor for plastic arts. The two levels (and programmatic areas) are linked by a generous open-air (covered) grand staircase-hall-gallery that articulates itself simultaneously as a meeting, performance and exhibition space.

Los Nogales School
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Los Nogales School
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The architectural objective of the Arts Centre was to develop a building that seamlessly integrates into the school campus (pattern and function ability), working the materiality that characterises the existing classroom buildings, with a more current aesthetic and spatiality.

In connection with the Campus and the existing Master Plan, the building is positioned as the seed of a second "quadrant" or central green space, to be accompanied (and completed) by future buildings.

This generous new common area, or second quad, continues to celebrate the wonderful condition of the green college, with clusters of native trees and paths, defining a square that generates the buildings entrance.

Brick was chosen as the predominant material as the Arts Centre sought to integrate with the existing classroom buildings, with the Zapan wood of the central staircase and painted tubes (red, orange and yellow) of the upper façade completing the buildings external palette.

Los Nogales School
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Los Nogales School
© Sergio Gómez
Los Nogales School
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Los Nogales School
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The orchestra classrooms (which opens into a single performance space) required particular acoustical management; the entire space finished in wood – floor, walls and ceilings - with a percentage of sound absorption panels (also utilised in other music rooms). The white walls and generous sky lights of the Art rooms maximise natural light levels.

With the support of an interdisciplinary professional team, sustainability and comfort levels were implemented as key design elements. For example, in the music rooms, which were required to be sealed for acoustic reasons, an input system for natural air convection was developed (using an acoustic pipeline) injecting air through ceiling.

Los Nogales School
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Los Nogales School
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In detail, the building contains the following spaces: on the first floor, a dance studio, two music rooms, five test cubicles (one of which is a recording studio), and two artists studios (catering for a musician and a painter). In addition, each music room has a generous storage space, for instruments and props.

The first floor also contains a lounge divisible to work with materials, and a performance hall for 200 people. On the second floor there are seven rooms for various artistic (physical) activities:

Los Nogales School
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Los Nogales School
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including a pottery room (with an oven), a room for learning 3D industrial design, a room for engraving/painting room, two drafting rooms and a photographic room (featuring a darkroom), as well as music rooms. These spaces also have generous storage space to maintain order and care of the materials used/made and the classrooms themselves.

Los Nogales School
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Los Nogales School
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Los Nogales School
First Floor Plan
Los Nogales School
Second Floor Plan


Los Nogales School
Corte 1
Los Nogales School
Corte 1


Los Nogales School
East Facade
Los Nogales School
West Facade
Los Nogales School
South Facade
Los Nogales School
North Facade


Los Nogales School
Croquis
Los Nogales School
Croquis


Los Nogales School
Location

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