Casa cultural in the Centro Poblado Las Colinas Jaime Pardo Leal

The project for the Casa de la Cultura at the ETCR Jaime Pardo Leal (one of the settlements created under the 2016 peace agreement for the reincorporation of former combatants) starts from a double commitment: to establish a reciprocal relationship between the community and its cultural institutions, and to consolidate a place that gives dignity to its identity in a territory marked by complex relationships between culture, society and nature.

The proposal shapes a park that ties together the existing buildings (the school, the library and the cultural centre) along with the self-managed infrastructure of the settlement (water tanks, a wind turbine, solar panels), connected by a network of public space and landscape routes among trees and crops. Local stone is used, giving value to the characteristic landscape of the upper Guiana Shield.