UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has unveiled designs for its first building in South America, a university building with colourful, undulating columns informed by indigenous weaving practices.
Located in Bogotá, along the city's Calle 72 thoroughfare, the seven-storey building will be part of the Universidad Ean and will host the school of sustainable design and workshops.
Renderings show a facade made up of a series of colourful, undulating columns that travel that height of the building.
Garden terraces are placed intermediately along the columns, which rise to meet the building's various floors. Colourful, geometric columns can also be seen along the sides of the building.
Heatherwick Studio has unveiled designs for a university building in Bogotá Each of the building's storeys features glazed facades with wooden framing.
"The design pays homage to the local craft traditions including Werregue basketry, a form of weaving unique to Colombia's Wounaan indigenous community," said the studio in a statement.
Werregue basketry is characterized by similar oval silhouettes and is most commonly made of natural palm fibre and coloured with vegetable dyes.
The studio also said it is working to develop "innovative facade materials" to accommodate the "high levels of sunlight" at Bogotá's altitude, which sits at 8,660 feet (2,640 metres) above sea level.

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