Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social in Bogota Building, Colombia Architecture Contest, Architect, Project Images

Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social in Bogota

SDIS Colombia Architecture Competiiton – design contest win by MOBO Architects

3 Mar 2016

Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social in Bogota Building

Design: MOBO Architects

Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social in Bogota, Colombia by MOBO Architects

Bogota / London architecture practice wins major Bogotá competition

MOBO Architects has won a high-profile competition for a new department for social integration building in Bogotá, Colombia.

MOBO Architects is a young innovating architecture office, currently based in Bogotá, Colombia and operating globally. Their capability spans from architecture, urban strategies, tangible design, product design and open research.

The architects state, “we believe that architecture is never a result of an idea of one individual, but it is a result of teamwork, commitment, and a synthesis of thoughts from diverse backgrounds and spheres of work. We have an approach to design based on scientific research and intuition, supported by the existing computational and analysis tools. We simply love what we do.”

SDIS

The project for the “department for social integration” is the architectural formulation of the inner values of this institution, therefore concepts as dedication to the public service, decrease of social segregation, and service to the community should be clearly visible in the design. Therefore, to fulfil this condition our design strategy was focused in the creation of a public space capable of create new ways of interaction between the street level and the institutional building.

After we synthesized the complex mixed program required by the institution in three parts (office spaces for the administrative functions of the department, spaces for social and public functions, and finally spaces for public events and presentations) our strategy is focused in the formulation of an efficient and flexible building, that trough the formulation of a unique public space is transformed in a platform of public exchange, open and transparent that integrates the urban fluxes with the building to promote community interaction.

Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social Bogota – Design Information

Type: First prize, open competition – Dec 2015
Client: Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Size: 20.000 sqm
Status: ongoing
Team: Anna Kulik, Giorgio Badalacchi, Natalia Canal, Antonio Bermúdez, Ana Winograd, Laura Gutierrez
External associate: Felipe Rodriguez

Images: MOBO, Monomo