Concurso 5inco Sena Ipiales

The new Centro de Formación Sur Colombiano for SENA (the national vocational training service) stands in the municipality of Ipiales, Nariño, and is conceived as a regional technical training facility. Its design answers a rural and productive context, bringing vocational training together with a careful reading of the landscape. The building settles onto the ground organically, following the contours, to give an efficient and accessible infrastructure fitted to its surroundings.

The brief is organised into four main teaching blocks: industry, humanities, hospitality and tourism, and agriculture. Each one works fairly autonomously, but all are linked by a large transverse shed that organises the shared areas of the project. This shed gathers the support spaces (auditorium, library, cafeteria, services and administration) and acts as the hinge between the main Ipiales–Aldana road and the farmland at the back of the site.