Fábrica de Cultura School of Arts and Popular Traditions
FÁBRICA DE CULTURA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND POPULAR TRADITIONS
ETH Zurich + Universidad del Norte de Barranquilla (UniNorte)
ARCHITECTS
ETH Zurich, Universidad del Norte de Barranquilla (UniNorte)
MANUFACTURERS
Hunter Douglas
PHOTOGRAPHS
Copyright Klumpner Chair of Architecture and Urban Design ETHZ / Alejandro Arango and Luis Bernardo Cano
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Ruedi & Vera Baur
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Andrés Guzmán, Osvaldo Guzmán
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Hubert Klumpner, Diego Ceresuela, Manuel Moreno, Sergio Chirivella (with A. Brillembourg hasta Feb. 2019)
DESIGN
ETH Zurich – D-ARCH Cátedra de Arquitectura y Diseño Urbano / Universidad del Norte de Barranquilla (UniNorte)
DESIGN TEAM
Pablo Levine, Blanca García-Gardelegui, Alejandro Jaramillo, Michael Walczak, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Cristian Zabalaga, Lucas Lerchs, Ursina Roffler, Diogo Figueiredo, Lea Rüfenacht (Coord. Fase 1), Marie Grob, Sofia Avramopoulou, María Paula Celia, Melanie Imfeld
ETH ZURICH CONSULTANTS
D-ARCH ITA SUAT, D-ARCH BLOCK RESEARCH GROUP (BRG), D-ARCH ITA Information Architecture
DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING
Fabián Amaya, Ricardo Vives, Guiselle García, Sharik Pereira, Sharon Pico
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Antonio Bula, José Solano
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
Daniel Soto, Rafael de Jesús
COMMUNICATIONS
Lácides Ripoll
INSTALLATIONS
Augusto Sisa
COST CONSULTANT
Luis Villadiego
PHOTOGRAPHS
Copyright Klumpner Chair of Architecture and Urban Design ETHZ / Alejandro Arango and Luis Bernardo Cano
TRANSPORT & TRAFFIC CONSULTANT
Victor Cantillo, Boris Goenaga
AREA
11500 m²
YEAR
2022
LOCATION
Barranquilla, Colombia
CATEGORY
Institute
Text description provided by architect.
The Fábrica de Cultura: School of Arts and Popular Traditions complex in Barrio Abajo, a working-class neighborhood in Barranquilla, Colombia, is built into an abandoned Tobacco Factory, adding a new building and offering a public square for the Barrio.
Located at the Caribbean coast, the Fábrica provides a ‘maker space’ for 2800 young people to learn creative arts and popular traditions centered around the culture of the UNESCO World Heritage Carnival of Barranquilla.
Operated by the Municipality, the facility offers arts and crafts education in - 11 disciplines music, dance, sculpture, dressmaking, painting poetry, theater, food production, digital film, and audio techniques - to local residents, regardless of their social or economic background.
The design builds on vernacular patterns, behaviors, and phenomena, utilizing local materials and processes and fabrication providing open building principles establishing a creative framework of stacked covered and uncovered spaces that can be modified and reprogrammed by users over time.
Fábrica de Cultura offers a flexible building prototype that is being replicated in other parts of Barranquilla and Colombia as a whole using popular arts and culture as a strategy for inclusion throughout the region.
The Fábrica de Cultura is part of the larger Colombia Urban Transformation Program, a collaboration between the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), among others. The drawings and models for the project were shown at the 17th International Architecture Biennale in Venice 2021.
