Designed by Arquiteck & Asociados, The building for the Embassy of the Republic of Ecuador in Colombia aims to provide through the architecture an image capable of expressing new diplomatic relations between the two countries. The project arises at a time of a change in the political tide, sponsored by the new Colombian government. The architectural proposal is developed on a corner plot of 680m2 previously occupied by a house in the 1980s, in which the Embassy worked until it was moved to make way for the new construction.
Photography: Andrés Valbuena
Located in a neighborhood consisting of residential and office buildings around six stories high, with a predominant use of brick facades, the new construction is a respite in an area of ??high density. Its low height and occupation of the site, its gardens and a neutral palette of colors and materials contrast with the surrounding buildings.
The entire program is divided into three floors, offices for the embassy, the consulate, the attache, meeting rooms, common areas and services that occupy a total of 772.19 built m2 and 595.81 m2 of gardens, terraces and green roofs.
Photography: Andrés Valbuena
Within the architectural genesis of the project is the formal and spatial purity projected within the site in a forceful and harmonious manner, both in the outer volume and the inner spatiality. Large white glass facades, double height panels made of ornamental stone that frame and define precise geometries, accompanied by...