Ágora-Bogotá
ÁGORA-BOGOTÁ
Estudio Herreros + Bermúdez Arquitectos
FACADES
ARUP (I. Fernández Solla).
AREA
70000 m²
LOCATION
Bogotá, Colombia
DIRECTORS
Ramón Bermúdez, Gonzalo Rivas, Stan Van der Maas
PHOTOGRAPHS
Enrique Guzmán ,Javier Callejas ,Federico Cairoli ,Andrés Valbuena ,Rafael Plascencia García
MANUFACTURERS
HID Global, Taylor Clay Products, Accesorios y Acabados, Aluman, Argos, Construcciones Acústicas, Constructora Parque Central, Etex Colombia, HB Sadelec, HR-Experta, Hunter Douglas, Industrial Taylor, Marmisol, Metecno, Redes y proyectos, Titán prefabricados, meTecno
PROJECT AUTHORS
Juan Herreros, Daniel Bermúdez, Jens Richter
YEAR
2017
TEAM
Carmen Antón (eH), Juan Carlos Ardila , David Barbosa, Jaime Barrera , Julián Beltrán, Camilo Brito, David Caballero, Laura Dorado, María Franco, Raúl García, David Gómez, Airam González, Iván Guerrero, Andrés Gutiérrez, Sergio Jiménez, Víctor Lacima, Juan Fernando Martínez, Margarita Martínez, Ana María Noriega, Juan Camilo Ortegón, Mª Ángeles Peñalver, Abraham Piñate, Juan Reyes, María Ríus, Alberto Roa, Luis Ángel Rivera, Esteban Salcedo, Beatriz Salinas, Paula Sopó, Martha Sosa Dias, Catalina Venegas
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Consorcio PyP (A. Palomino, C. Palomino), CNI (N. Parra), BAC ECG (L. Moya, X. Aguiló, C. Gastelbondo).
SUSTAINABILITY
(J. Ramírez, S. Varón), Arup (R. Rodríguez).. Modelacion Energetica: Ses (T. Uribe).
IDENTITY
OAC (N. Chaves y J. Gallego).
LIGHTNING DESIGN
ALS (A. Aman, M. Juarrero), MTS (M. T. Sierra, J. Laverde).
AUDIOVISUAL
AKUSTIKS (J. Soler, S. Brandt).
ACOUSTICS
ADT (D. Duplat), AKUSTIKS (J. Soler, C. Blair, S. Brandt).
LANDSCAPE
D. Wiesner.
FORESTRY
E. Bermúdez.
CATEGORY
Community Center, Shopping Centers
ARCHITECTS
Bermúdez Arquitectos, Estudio Herreros
Text Description provided by architects.
Located on a site of almost 2 hectares in the geographical heart of the city of Bogotá, halfway between the historic center (3km) and the international airport (8km), AGORA BOGOTA establishes a key piece of the city´s fair and exhibition complex, Corferias.
The project settles in a dynamic urban area undergoing a process of consolidation and regeneration, characterized by deficit of well-defined public space.
In order to liberate as much public space as possible, the project opts for verticality. With 5 main floors above ground level and 2 basement decks, the building occupies an 81×81 mt square in plan and reaches up to 49 mt high.
Of the 64.883 m2 of built area, 33.722 m2 are situated underground and dedicated to parking areas (1.055 cars), technical and maintenance rooms, storage areas and loading docks, as well as a fully equipped kitchen with a production capacity of 2.500 meals.
The remaining 31.161 m2, above street level, accommodate all of the public program, with meeting rooms and lobbies for conventions up to 2.500 assistants, or several smaller events simultaneously.
It also contains all of the directly related service areas: restrooms, kitchen satellites and furniture storages.
The main hall on the upper fifth floor has a capacity of hosting singular events of up to 4.000 people, for concerts, conferences or any other event that falls out of the usual convention type.
The public spaces around the building specifically respond to each of the distinct urban conditions, aiming to complement the preexisting deficiencies and to enrich the area as a whole.
To the north, the public square parallel to the Avenida de la Esperanza marks the main access to the building, but also articulates the encounter of the convention center (Ágora Bogotá), the fairground (Corferias) and the city.
The west strip alongside the Carrera 40 proposes a dense green area, serving as a place of contemplation and informal encounter.
The south side, towards Corferias´ main parking building, organizes all vehicular flows: passenger drop-off, bus platform and accesses to the underground public parking and the loading dock.
Finally, the east side plaza functions as a generous esplanade where open air events related to the convention center and the fairground can take place.
ÁGORA-BOGOTÁ recognizes the capacity of a building to reposition the city and the country on the Latin American and world stage. With this commitment, the project aims to build an enclave unique among its kind, capable of introducing a revision of the model of large urban receptacle committed to the city and to the political, technical and sustainable concerns of the present.
To accomplish this, the program is stacked vertically in search of a presence at the urban scale, which is offset by freeing up the ground level, which becomes a public space.
The heterodox high-rise construction of a normally horizontal program permits a special three-dimensional richness when deploying the program in a spiral sequence of halls, meeting places and isotropic rooms of 40 to 4,000 m2 that is interwoven with another ascending chain, this one invisible, of logistical movements, warehouses and kitchens, which permanently adapts the spaces to a diversity of uses that include banquets, fairs, sports competitions, shows… and conventions.
Likewise, the compression of the floors that derives from the verticality makes it possible to provide natural lighting in all the halls and to deploy a system of natural ventilation through the slabs and the great atrium-central plaza that eliminates the installation of the inevitable air conditioning, thereby reinforcing the environmental commitment of the building that takes up the fight against climate change.
In this scheme, the facade is the place of all encounters: that of the users with the city from the four observatories that overlook the same number of ecologies that explain the geography of Bogotá: hills, historical center, modern city and savanna; the encounter of the interior climate with the exterior by means of the gills of automatic climatisation that regulate the breathing of the spaces;
the encounter of a solid building tradition with the most advanced glass technology and its treatments; and, finally, the encounter of the building with its urban context, especially at dusk, converted into a new topographical accident for the orientation of the navigators of the city.
