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Protective Canopy in Colombia
Steel cables that rest on the slope of the mountain from end to end, are hung forming a catenary by a light of 130 meters. A single cover that protects the exotic and natural collections chosen for being the most representative ecosystems of the Colombian regions. The native collection of the mountain slope, continues and pierces the building by means of strips of trees.
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Protective Canopy in Colombia
The project intention (recover the silhouette of the mountain and the project can only made by steel) is very attach with the structure. The structure is made of two cables suspended from the ends of the mountains by means of expansion anchors, between the anchors the structure also has tensioners, which are responsible for preventing differences in air pressure and winds from raising the cover. The cover is made by ETFE bubbles that give rigidity and solution to the evacuation of rainwater.
Last updated: June 16, 2021 Bogotá, Colombia
Rehabilitation of the mining footprint on the mountain
The Entre Nubes district park is home to a wide variety of fauna and flora, a natural reserve where seven streams flow into the Tunjuelo River, one of the three main rivers that crosses and cleans the city of Bogotá. The mining footprint has left large environmental scars or (quarries) that threaten to devour the city's most important mountain ecosystem. The project, instead of a space for research, dissemination and protection of biodiversity, proposes to link human relations with its surroundings, recovering the silhouette of the mountain and the urban border between the city and the park that has destabilized the relationship between the urban landscape and natural landscape.
Natural piece of city
The excavation of the brickworks in the natural soil, has created a concavity in the mountain that makes it possible to fit the building in the mining footprint. The implantation of the building seeks to have the least possible environmental impact on the mountain and the terrain, a series of steel cables are supported by the slope of the mountain from end to end, they hang by forming a series of catenaries that cover a light of 130 meters. To give stability to the roof, a series of tensioners are proposed that anchor the catenaries to the floor by thin steel tensioners that carefully penetrate the ground and delimit the program in the different spaces destined for the community, dissolving the city-mountain limit being a public, cultural and educational equipment.
Landscape identity
A single roof raised in ETFE, a type of thermoplastic polymer with high resistance to heat and UV rays, as well as reducing CO2 emissions, essential for a greenhouse pavilion that protects the exotic and native collections chosen because they are the most representative ecosystems in the different Colombian regions and those most threatened by desertification and exploitation of natural resources. The native collection of the slope of the mountain, surrounds the four collections or exotic biomes. In turn, it perforates the building and the roof by means of strips of trees that create patios inside the building. The yards help to collect rainwater by creating a filtration process for water reuse in the project. The place recovers the natural balance of the ecosystem.