Open future. Amairis Sewing Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura
18/08/2020.
[San Isidro-Puerto Caldas - Pereira] Colombia
metalocus, ANDRÉS ROJAS
metalocus, ANDRÉS ROJAS
Architecture studio Ruta 4 was commissioned to design a sewing workshop in a difficult area, because it was forgotten and abandoned by the administrations. The tailoring factory is an idea managed by women mothers from the San Isidro village in the village of Puerto Caldas in Pereira, Colombia.
Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura is currently directed by the architects, Jorge Noreña, Juliana López Marulanda, Julián Andrés Vásquez.
Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura is currently directed by the architects, Jorge Noreña, Juliana López Marulanda, Julián Andrés Vásquez.
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli
Sketch. Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura.
Sketch. Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura.
Site plan. Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura.
Ground floor plan. Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura.
Cross sections. Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura.
Elevations. Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura.
Constructive section. Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura.
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Joan Pulgarin
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Joan Pulgarin
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Joan Pulgarin
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Joan Pulgarin
Amairis Tailoring Workshop by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura. Photograph by Yeferson Bernal
Ruta 4 designed the sewing workshop paying attention to the popular Colombian landscape, the materials and the techniques applied by the self-building artisans of their own habitat. A territory where guadua (Angustifolia Kunth) abounds and a neighboring city with a ceramic tradition in brick and clay tiles, gave them the tools to design.
The building is a large longitudinal space with two large façades. One formed by a wall that folds to store and an opposite façade, entirely open.
The building is a large longitudinal space with two large façades. One formed by a wall that folds to store and an opposite façade, entirely open.
Project description by Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura
Background
The project of the cutting and sewing factory is an idea managed by women from the San Isidro village in the township of Puerto Caldas in Pereira, Colombia, accompanied by the community centre that is a neighbourhood organization that promotes educational and cultural strategies.
We join this process accompanied by interdisciplinary agents and an empowered community. This community offered the possibility of recognising the symbolic links of the inhabitants that are interwoven in daily life and establishes bonds of trust. These links were added to the discoveries made in the landscape, the starting premises for designing the textile space.
Description
The concept project arises from the rural condition in a specific context, where the plain projected by the river valley, the distant hills, the sunset over the west, the corn crops and the fading blue sky, are the fundamental premises that delimit and configure the constructed idea.
The morphological understanding of the neighbourhood determines the implantation in the terrain. The unfavourable climatic incidence is assumed as a temporal force and the geography shows links with the local traditions to establish technical operation strategies.
The landscape serves as evidence of the Colombian popular construction techniques, with materials and techniques applied by the craftsman who builds for his own habitat. A territory where guadua (Angustifolia Kunth) abounds and a neighbouring city with a ceramic tradition in brick and clay tiles give us clues to take the material as a symbolic input.
The project is located in the terrain, recognizing the solar traffic that alters the main facade and how this condition determines a dynamic mechanism that allows a variety of window openings.
The rear facade is delimited by a wall that folds in order to create storage space and interrupts the rhythm of this mass with 24 perforations that are punctually framed towards the edges.
Intimacy is altered by the south facade, entirely glazed to establish different escaping directions of space and the extension of the platform, a floor that is diluted in the limits to plant the building in an exterior space.
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Architects
ruta 4, taller. Jorge Augusto Noreña, Juliana López Marulanda, Julián Vásquez.
Project team
Maria Alejandra Zuluaga (Architect), Rosalie Lefevre (Architect), Daniel Buitrago (Architect), Julián Motato (Ethno-educator), Margarita Zuluaga
(Industrial and Graphic Designer). Interns: Andrés Duran Parra, Daniela Trejos.
Collaborators
Structural Engineer.- Jorge Obed Gómez. Resident Engineer.- Mauricio García (Construsocial). Electrical Engineer.- Santiago Marín. Community organization.- The Beginning of the Rainbow (LidereIlda Luz Silva).
Self-management
El Comienzo del Arcoíris, Poblado Mundo and Diputación de Jaén.
Area
210 m²
Dates
2019.
Location
San Isidro in the village of Puerto Caldas in Pereira, Colombia.
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Jorge Noreña, Juliana López Marulanda. Ruta 4 taller de arquitectura
Ruta 4 is an architecture workshop founded by Jorge Noreña, Juliana López Marulanda in 2020, with Julián Andrés Vásquez and Daniel Buitrago, in 2014. Graduates from Universidad Católica De Pereira. Ruta 4 believes that each place tells a story and that architecture should be a symbolic representation of it, a correspondence: cultural, material, geographic, morphological, historical and political of the place and the moment, of space and time, a testimony of the era in which the project is developed; transform architecture into a magic touch of the surrounding reality, making it poetry, conscience, everyday life and truth.
In 2014, we came together with the purpose of creating a route without thinking about the destination and with our eyes only fixed on the road. Ruta 4 is a laboratory in which architecture is divided into dimensions: human, political, cultural and spatial, based in Pereira, Colombia, a scene of diversity and multiculturalism. Learning by speaking and learning by doing is the synthesis of the workshop, a space in which minga and research merge to transcend the aesthetic complexity of the work and take root in the territory as a symbol of the habitat.
In 2014 we set out on a path almost at random; Between communities, landscapes, trips, places, questions and affections that have been added as layers that permeate us; skins of experiences that nourish a route and alter it in its daily doing.
We have traveled in places of insurgency, unstable, on the margins, Latin American territories in contrast to determine from the everyday, the neighborhood, the community and the collective our way of operating.
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