CONTEXTO

Once adopted the University Campus Master Plan in 2005, the University receive an impulse to renewing its facilities. That is how, 20 years on various attempts, the building construction of the Faculty of Nursing was successfully completed thanks to the initiative of the Bogota Headquarters to upgrade the infrastructure to educative global requirements. The main question to project the building was the complexity caused by the tension between the strong presence of heritage constructions in the original campus urban layout, and the necessity to expand the infrastructure to receive students and to achieve the challenges regarding the educative global standards. In addition to the original urban plan, defined by the architect Leopoldo Rother in 1936, in the surroundings of the Faculty of Nursing they are located the buildings of the Faculties of Political Science and Law, Social Sciences, Medicine and Veterinary. All of them and the campus urban plan already declared Architectural National Heritage. In this context, the Nursing Building additionally to supply the leading-edge areas to generate knowledge was conceived to provide a contemporary environment, allowing the existing urban connections and generating the new interactions necessaries to consolidate the university spirit, while enabling the maximum visual relations with the heritage buildings and landscape. To reach this goal the building was separated from the floor, giving an open ground floor to the urban campus life.

ACTUACIÓN

meeting the outlined project expectations. The building separation from the floor was functionally complemented with the underground where they were located autonomous and controlled areas, because they provide external services, as the auditorium and the laboratories. In the interior, the sloped second-floor slab offers a convenient inclination for the classrooms seating areas and to distribute parallel terraces for the student practices. That architectural shape implied technical challenges for the engineering proposal, which solved the overhang geometry and the irregular conformation. For the lecture rooms ventilation, it was used a longitudinal ventilation duct inside of the central wall, to permanently extracts the air out, towards the building top. The same principle was used in the offices area, but in this case, the central hall is on charge of the air extraction by manual control. Regarding the sunlight, the vertical sun protection pieces in both longitudinal facades, reduce the discomfort inside without impede the visual. The façade architectural finishes and the structural elements materials were defined to reduce the maintenance. The underground deck, the corridors and the access plaza, have been covered to reduce the light reflection but keeping water permeability. The green deck, on the auditorium roof, protects the slab of the sunlight impacts and reduces the external sound waves, while collect the rainwater for maintenance. All these aspects insure the fluid building articulation with the university life. One of the most significant outcomes was the increase in three hundred per cent of the applications to the nursing career.