Rewriting the Skin in the Educational Space: Intervention of the Urban-Architectural-Patrimonial Ensemble of La Salle at La Candelaria, Bogota (Colombia)

Abstract

The article seeks to approach the intervention of the architectural complex of La Salle, based in La Candelaria, as a result of a research that explores architecture, space and its communicating ability to understand that intimate experience of inhabiting the educational complex. This exploration is done, based on the “skin of space” as a conceptual and physical analogy of the skin of a living being, a skin that protects, functions, appropriates but also expresses, transmits, and educates through this experience of being in the space. In this sense, the exploration of the spatial skin in the architectural complex places in the experience of being the ability of the space to express and educate, as well as the search for new ways of living the college habitat, the basic tools to project an educational college ensemble that consolidates and values the architectural complex of La Salle as a tangible legacy and intangible heritage of modern architecture from the community and the city.