Medellin
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Project • By StudioSC • Offices
Indie Lab
Indie Labs is the product of a collaboration between two studios: StudioSC, based in New York City, and Base Taller, based in Medellín, Colombia. With deep personal and professional ties to Medellín, StudioSC was invited to join the design team for a ground-up office building just outside the city center, perched at the edge of a natural preserve. The site’s sharply triangular geometry, dictated further by setback requirements, presented both a constraint and a starting point. Rather than accept a purely angular solution, the design softened the form by curving all three sides of the building. This move evolved into a larger design language of flowing, curvilinear spaces, forms that visually and spatially connect the bui... More
Project • By Plasma • Restaurants
La Miguería - Viva Envigado
Design that Highlights Tradition and the Sensory Experience.La Miguería is a family-owned bakery and pastry shop founded in 2011 in Medellín. Over the years, it has solidified its presence in the city through multiple carefully developed points of sale. One of its most recent openings, located in the expansion of the Viva Envigado shopping mall, is part of Jardín Nómada, an environment designed for coworking and social interaction, where architecture and nature converge to offer a unique sensory experience.
Santiago Toro
Santiago Toro
Santiago Toro
The design of this new space needed to address two fundamental objectives: to preserve La Miguería's intimate identity while adapting to the dyn... More
Project • By Taller Sintesis • Nurseries
Casas del mar Children Center
Fraternidad and Berta Martinez Foundations alongside with the local government promoted a center for child care in Rionegro Antioquia. The project is located on a limited area with an important slope, surrounded by local roads and a creek.
Through a series of displacements and subtractions the project generates free spaces and patios to which all of the buildings activities are turned to. The resulting spaces are thus easily controlled while visual relating with the external gardens. Additionally a communal house is developed independently in the school ground floor and relates directly with lower garden and the creek. More
Project • By Empresa de desarrollo urbano: EDU • Community Centres
UVA EL PARAISO – Unidad de vida articulada San Antonio de Prado
Unidad de Vida Articulada San Antonio de Prado
Articulated Units Life, UVA, are urban transformations in the neighborhoods of Medellin, intended for the public meeting, the promotion of sport, recreation, culture and community participation, under the concepts of:
• JOINT PROGRAMMES, PROJECTS AND CITY:
Equipment that promote balance in services for the neighborhood and the city
• RECYCLING EXISTING AND UNUSED SPACES
Revive restricted urban spaces in effective public space
• SPACES TO ENJOY WITH FIVE SENSES
Architectures that interact with citizens, which generates experiences
UVA (articulated life unit) “The Paradise”, is a sport center, recreational and cultural activities, is conceived as an neighborhood club immersed in one o... More