LA POBLADA CULTURAL LANGUAGE CENTRE, MEDELLIN

Directed by: Arch. Luis Guillermo

Hernández Vásquez; Arch. Gabriel Jaime

Obando López

Co-author: Rebeca David Sanchez

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2022

The building project is located in the neighbourhood El Poblado, Medellin, where most of the foreigners and tourists are accommodated, simultaneously where many of the cultural initiatives are emerging. Nevertheless, the index of a second language proficiency (English) in Colombia has one of the lowest levels in Latin America, hampering an effective cultural exchange for Colombian locals in the different areas, personal, professional and academic. Paradoxically there is a big disconnection to the rest of 69 native spoken languages in the nation as well. This project seeks to solve it from architecture discipline by giving an appropiate space where both foreign and native languages shall converge.

The roof consists of a skylight that captures the light and presents it inside in a diffuse way.

From the understanding of the orientation and sunlight, different facades are proposed according to the direction of the light, so the western facade is more controlled than the south facade, where the sun does not hit directly.