El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis

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El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis

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  • Project Name: El Porvenir Children Center
  • Practice: Taller Sintesis
  • Products: Acoustic 43 , Argos , Calypso , Cubiertas & Aluminios , Cubiertas , Estaco , Pisos Alfa , ladrillera San José , Autocad , Chaos , Adobe Photoshop
  • Completion year: 2020
  • Gross Built up Area: 2620 Sqm
  • Project Location: Rionegro, Antioquia
  • Country: Colombia
  • Lead Architects/Designer: Farhid Maya Ramírez, David Cuartas Restrepo
  • Design Team: Anderson Serna, Alejandra Montoya, Mauricio Carvajal.
  • Clients: Fundación Fraternidad Medellín, Fundación Berta Martínez , Alcaldía de Rionegro
  • Structural Consultants: Rico H Ingenierosy Arquitectos.
  • Contractors: C.A.S.A.
  • Photo Credits: Mauricio Carvajal
  • Others: Proinsel, Casa Sana.
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Excerpt: El Porvenir Children Center is an institution designed by the architectural firm Taller sintesis in the municipality of Rionegro, Antioquia. It is a single-level brick building made up of a series of vaulted pavilions. These vaulted pavilions house the classrooms that have a direct link with a series of courtyards. This allows adequate ventilation and lighting but also enables a direct relationship between the children and nature, giving the landscape a permanent presence in the educational spaces and enabling the effective integration of the classrooms with nature.

Project Description

(“Text as submitted by the Architects”)

The El Porvenir Child Development Center is a public institution, located in the municipality of Rionegro, Antioquia. The centre can house up to a total of four hundred children, mainly inhabitants of the neighbouring neighbourhood of the same name.

The new headquarters, which replaces a small building that does not meet the needs of this type of facility, is a single-level brick building made up of a series of vaulted pavilions projecting towards the Malpaso ravine and towards a forest that has been planted as part of the intervention.

These pavilions house the classrooms that have a direct link with a series of courtyards. This allows not only adequate ventilation and lighting but also enables a direct relationship between the children and nature, giving the landscape a permanent presence in the educational spaces and enabling the effective integration of the classrooms with nature.

El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis

El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis

El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis

El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis

These pavilions are joined by a volume that is arranged perpendicular to them, and which houses the collective areas of the project: a canteen that functions as a large covered courtyard, administration facilities, services for parents and students, an auditorium that opens directly to the exterior to allow direct use for the community and a covered hall so that parents can wait for their young children without being affected by the weather.

The scale of the children appears throughout the project, niches, windows and furniture are arranged at their height, allowing them to build their own landscape, only available to them. The colour treatment of each of the rooms also gives them a particular character that allows easy identification and appropriation of each space.

El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis
The building and the environmental are integrated in a relation of respect for each other
El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis
The interior of the project rooms is equipped with game elements to promote learning based on fun
El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis
Classrooms, courtyards, and hallways are visually connected through the windows system
El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis
Despite the fact that the furniture and windows are on a scale of the smallest, the building is very high to have better natural lighting conditions.
El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis
Contact with nature, increases cognitive development in infants and improves their perception of the world
El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis
A interior landscape made for the child´s scale
El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis
The building provides spaces for learning with nature
El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis
Due to the rainy weather conditions in Rionegro, the building generates a hall for parents to wait for children indoors

El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis

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