Colegio Bolívar

The project extends the facilities of Colegio Bolívar with a series of volumes placed with landscape in mind, settling into the ground like “piedras cansadas”, the great stones the Andean builders left resting along the road to a building site. The analogy suggests a harmonious relationship with the natural setting, where each building appears to rest in the landscape without imposing itself.

The volumes keep a solid and contained image thanks to a permeable skin that links inside to outside, filtering light and producing spatial transitions that enrich the experience of learning. This envelope not only provides protection from the climate, it also reinforces the institutional character of the whole.