The objective of the El Equipo Mazzanti project for the Barranca Roof is to create an open space that gives real importance to the role of the community in the construction of a city.

The project is located in the Colombian district of Barrancabermeja, headquarters of the country's largest oil refinery and capital of the Yariguies Province.
The roof project designed by El Equipo Mazzanti acts as a tool to promote activities within it, and its role within the community is to promote activities and generate a sense of ownership and pride for the inhabitants of the area.

The project is generated from a modular system based on the elongated rhombus that multiplies creating an adaptable, growing, and suitable structure for transformation. This modulation colonizes and composes the public space.
 

Description of project by El Equipo Mazzanti

This projects aim is to create an open space that gives true relevance to the role of the community in the construction of a city. A modular system is composed from an elongated rhombus type piece that multiplies and unites in a base module or a complementary module, making an adaptable and progressively growing and transforming structure. 

A vast generative ceiling emerges from a series of connected and raised pieces that allow existing and unique realities of its location to infiltrate within its interiors. A sequence of physical perceptions based on natural factors such as humidity, heat, cold or luminosity accompanied by controlled elements like light filtration, fans and aspersers, or sound and water implementations, create a spontaneous atmosphere that make people sensible to their own bodies relationship with nature. 

The structure acts as a tool for promoting any sort of activities ranging from sportive, ludic, economic, academic and cultural, to social, taking advantage of its open kind that suggests interactions between people and with nature. The design is defined by the trees’ and bushes’ shape, which determine if the structure bends, expands or wraps around them. 

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Contest and conceptualization.- Carlos Medellín, Humberto Mora, Simón Escabi, Juan Carlos Zapata. Development.- Luz Rocío Lamprea, Juan Carlos Zapata, Laura Pachón, Lorena Mendoza, Pablo Maal, Manuela Dangond, Andrés Melo, Juan Esteban Parra, Julian Quiroz. Interns.- Pablo Maal.
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Built.- 1.000 m². Public space.- 7,000 m².
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Completion Year.- 2016.
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Barrancabermeja, Colombia.
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Pequeño Robot - Alejandro Arango. Dirección de fotografía.- Mariana Bravo. 
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Giancarlo Mazzanti (1963, Barranquilla, Colombia) is a Colombian architect and the director of El Equipo de Mazzanti. He graduated in Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá in 1987 and later completed postgraduate studies in History and Theory of Architecture and Industrial Design at the University of Florence, Italy. In 1995, he established his architecture practice in Bogotá, which today operates as El Equipo de Mazzanti.

He has taught at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, and has also taught or lectured at institutions including Princeton University, Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s GSAPP.

Mazzanti’s work is especially recognized for exploring architecture as an instrument of social transformation. His public projects—schools, libraries, sports facilities and civic spaces—often use adaptable structures and collective spaces to encourage interaction and community life. Among his best-known works are Parque Biblioteca España and León de Greiff Library Park in Medellín, as well as several educational projects in Bogotá and Cartagena. His work is represented in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

His awards include the XX Colombian Architecture Biennial prize for Urban Development and Landscape in 2006, the Best Work of Architecture award at the VI Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in 2008, and First Prize in Architectural Design at the 2008 Pan-American Architecture Biennial.

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Published on: September 10, 2020
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metalocus, VALERIA OZUNA
"Adaptable, growing and transformable structure. Roof prototype for sports and public spaces by El Equipo Mazzanti" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/adaptable-growing-and-transformable-structure-roof-prototype-sports-and-public-spaces-el-equipo-mazzanti> ISSN 1139-6415
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