The School and Bike Center complex is a space that introduces nature into the neighborhood habitat, forming an active edge that overlooks and interacts with the Tunjuelo River. In response to the ecological structure, it is proposed to create an urban front that includes an oratory, sports courts, a tree-lined avenue with a bike path, active and passive gyms, and outdoor playgrounds, in addition to the cafeteria and the multipurpose room of the school, which allow opening towards the park in the afternoons and holidays, as well as the library, open to the community after school hours. Taking advantage of the proximity of other schools, this project is presented as an opportunity to unite the different activities of each one, creating a network that forms the river park and connects with the city through an entrance gate, the Agora, on which the pedestrian accesses to the school and the bike center are located, along with a large square formed by the walls of the houses on the south side, where the bike pavilion can see and be seen by the surroundings. In the future, the river begins to connect links made by neighborhood activity nodes reached by roads, creating meeting squares. The best way to respond to the demands of the time is by generating flexible spaces, indoors and outdoors, that adapt to the changing needs of use. The complex is organized in such a way that it can be built in stages, separating and integrating the programs with a system of articulating squares.

Bike Temple

A pavilion that rises to see and be seen, a social commitment to the bicycle as a democratizing and sustainable means, generating appropriation in the territory. This temple, conceived in function of the study of the bicycle, distributes the services in a semi-basement, while the structure, arranged around the perimeter, generates a surrounding gallery that allows observing and externalizing activity towards the gardens and squares that envelop it in an open and flexible floor plan that contains the most private activities. The translucent box illuminates the surroundings at night and becomes a stage through its use.

Collegiate Cloister

Around the central square, two L-shaped structures form the heart of the school’s gathering space. Towards the North, the youngest students create a micro world of intimate nature, where the classrooms are organized around an atrium and a rear courtyard that separates the existing culatas through orchards, gardens, and play areas. Towards the East and South of the square, the more public and representative spaces face towards the interior of the school and towards the city, making the surrounding landscape visible from spaces that overlook the city and are seen by it. To the West, the largest volume overlooks the city on the ground floor, through a transparent corridor that activates the edge towards the Bosa road, and on the upper floors, it is reversed, generating corridors that overlook the central square and serve as bleachers for the events that take place there. The structure organizes flexible spaces that can be interconnected according to the demands of use, projecting pedagogical activity outwards in a system that joins together like a chain. Landscaping organizes the complex and mitigates the impacts of the different uses among themselves, creating environments of different characters and scales.