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El Equipo Mazzanti
The Colombian office El EQUIPO MAZZANTI has been active for more than 25 years in the framework of the architectural design, research and academia. Structured with a philosophy of horizontality, architects, urban planners, artists and sociologists work together in search of an open and collective practice.
Publications
Works
03/12/2021
Biomedical Campus, Rome
The proposal is based on an open system concept prepared to accommodate the present and future growth of the campus, an architectural organism with the capacity to spark new uses and habits...
03/12/2021
Fundo Moray Center, Maras
Inspired in harvest rotations, an open system consisting of circles in the landscape resembling qochas – the old water dams – adapts to different users and activities: kitchen garden, stable, school, auditorium...
03/12/2021
La Ilusión School, Medellín
Designed as adaptable, open, multifunctional, and interchangeable spaces, each learning area is composed of articulated classrooms. A covered section in the courtyard invites to take activities outdoors...
03/12/2021
Control and Operations Center CCO, La Pintada
The Control and Operations Center (CCO) is a road infrastructure that functions as a gathering point for travelers, serving the area as a breakout space and tourist information spot. Over the last years Colombia has promoted the construction of a se
03/12/2021
21 Atlántico Kindergartens, Atlántico
The Atlántico Department, north of Colombia, with its vast prairies, big rivers, and variable climate, is also an area historically affected by poverty. The lack of public infrastructures – and the poor maintenance of the existing – moreover makes th
03/12/2021
Modern Art Museum, Barranquilla
The design of the new building of the Barranquilla Museum of Modern Art (MAMBA) starts out essentially from two facts: on one hand, the city is and will be the gate of entry for migrant international communities to Colombia, which has become an impor
03/12/2021
Prototype Canopy for Public Spaces, Barrancabermeja
This project is part of an initiative to build new public recreational facilities in the city of Barrancabermeja, focussing specifically on those residential areas most affected by social conflict, safety issues, and lack of public services. The main
03/12/2021
Pies Descalzos School, Cartagena de Indias
Located on the slope of the Loma del Peyé, in Cartagena, the megaschool for the Pies Descalzos Foundation was conceived as an architectural and urban project with a significant social impact and the capacity to become a strong motor for change for t
03/12/2021
BabyGym Kindergarten, Barranquilla
The commission contemplated the construction of a kindergarten inspired in the Reggio Emilia pedagogical philosophy and method, starting out from the idea that architecture can create alternative learning methods based on experience. The building con
03/12/2021
Ciudadela 29 de Julio Park, Santa Marta
Within the Masterplan for the Manzanares River developed by the municipality of Santa Marta – capital of the Magdalena department –, the Ciudadela 29 de Julio Park is one of the seven prototypes designed with the objective of improving the current co
03/12/2021
Forest of Hope, Soacha
The project is located in altos de Cazucá, a neighborhood in the municipality of Soacha, a peripheral conurbation of the city of Bogotá. Socioeconomically it is a highly depressed area, lacking public infrastructure of any nature. It is notorious for
03/12/2021
Educational Park, Marinilla
The Marinilla Educational Park offers the community a space where its cultural identities can be expressed, acknowledged, promoted, and preserved. The building was conceived as a place where the typical activities of the Paisa culture – planting, pla
09/11/2020
Fundación Santa Fe Extension, Bogotá
The building is the outcome of a competition that was held in the year 2012 to enlarge the premises of the Fundación Santa Fe, one of Bogotá’s leading hospitals and an institution known to be a pioneer in research and innovation having to do with pat
10/06/2020
Helvetia School expansion, Bogotá
The Helvetia School is an institution that was founded in 1949 by a group of Swiss citizens living in the north of Bogotá, who wanted to provide their children with an education in accordance with that of their country of origin, allowing them to con
19/05/2020
Refurbishment of Romelio Martínez Stadium, Barranquilla
Built in 1935 for the National Games of Colombia, the Romelio Martínez Stadium stands on a site initially intended for baseball and later used as a football field for the neighborhood. Over these spaces rose the stadium and what was called the ‘shade
28/02/2015
Pies Descalzos School, Cartagena de Indias (project stage)
Consisting of hexagons housing different functions and built with sustainable strategies, this educational center has become a symbol in the informal settlement which it serves.
01/01/2015
Educational Park, Marinilla (project stage)
An aluminum mesh held by an exposed structure wraps the different elements and will be covered by climbing plants, creating a semi-open building that focusses on the visuals and seeks the views of the natural environment surrounding it.
01/01/2013
New Velodrome, Medellín - El Equipo de Mazzanti / Fake Industries AA / Glez. Galán / Lotfi-Jam / Suite
The project brings together two seemingly incompatible spatial conditions: an insular, formal-ly specific sports infrastructure and a permeable, open public space. A translucid and flexible membrane covers this double-use space. Aside from sports ven
30/11/2011
Timayui Kindergarten, Santa Marta
The project is part of the education program supported by the municipality of Santa Marta with the Fundación Carulla – an institution created in 1961 to promote the integral development of children. The program works to improve the conditions of chil
30/06/2011
Sports Stages for the IX South American Games, Medellín
Conceived from a bioclimatic and structural pattern, a topographic cover, mimicking the mountainous environment, surrounds a complete sports program.
31/08/2010
El Porvenir Social Kindergarten, Bogotá
Three hundred infants and children from a disadvantaged neighborhood attend this school, where classrooms are confined to a compound and public areas serve the community.
31/08/2009
Spain Library Park, Medellín
The competition called for the construction of a public library on the outskirts of Medellín. The main goal was to design an infrastructure able to fulfill the educational and recreational functions described in the brief and favor social integration
Articles
03/12/2021
Actions, Games, Systems
The founder of Equipo Mazzanti explores the ideas and concepts that underlie the work of the practice, throwing light on its particular approach to the discipline.
03/12/2021
Architectural Assemblages
Taking inspiration from construction games, the architecture of the Colombian studio proposes strategies that favor the involvement of users.
03/12/2021
Built Diversity
Committed and experimental, the work of Giancarlo Mazzanti is defined by the complex social and political context of contemporary Colombia.
03/12/2021
Serio ludere: The Mazzanti Machine
Giancarlo Mazzanti takes play seriously, perhaps like no other architect since Aldo van Eyck. The Dutch built more than 700 playgrounds in Amsterdam over the course of 30 years, integrating those ludic and abstract spaces in the everyday life of a ci