‘Bosques de la Esperanza,’ Sport Center, Bogota, Colombia by Giancarlo Mazzanti

In a small town of Bogotà city, an area known for its security problems and became the shelter of thousands of people that have been displaced from their home towns due to recent conflicts. Mazzanti came with el ‘Bosques de la Esperanza,’ wich means Hope Forest what Mazzanti calls an open project. A project made out of modules that have the potential to grow and adapt to different situations. It consists of a canopy where modules can be added depending on the circumstances.

The Sport Center consists of a 1.744 m2 horizontal surface and a 700 m2 dome of spatial structure, which “evokes a bunch of trees as a symbol of nature, union and hope in the area of Altos de Cazuca”. The dimensions of the canopy are approximately 22.7m x 30.8m, with a perimeter of 138.198m.

Each of the modules is a polyhedron of 12 surfaces, a dodecahedron. These are custom-fabricated and iterate numerous time to form the canopy. The structural canopy functions as a beam plane, supported over the two axes of the columns. The materials used were expanded mesh, round metal pipe and translucent tile. El Equipo de Mazzanti