COLOMBIA – CASA MANUELITA SÁENZ

Location: Bogotá (Colombia)
Project Date: –
Surface: 809,16 m2

Status: Completado
Typology: Detached Single Family Home

Budget: 1.213.740 € (1.500,00 €/m2)

KUBO System: K3

Manuelita Sáenz’s house, owned by the University of America Foundation, is the headquarters of the Costume Museum, located in the historic center of the city of Bogotá.

The typical colonial building preserves the design and construction materials, including wood in mezzanine structures, roofs and carpentry.

In 1975, the work carried out by the Costume Museum began, founded on the initiative of the anthropologist Edith Jiménez de Muñoz and the University of America Foundation, after carrying out unprecedented research on the history of the costume in Colombia, whose work has been continued thanks to the direction of María del Pilar Muñoz.

Coming from the Mudejar heritage, covered with Pas and Knuckles armor, facilitating the use of round wood, coming from the eastern hills, using grasses such as chusque, from whose fiber the roof and ceiling beds were obtained.

The project consists of the location and representation of the pathologies present in this historic building with BIM methodology and the subsequent action proposal.

In the successive plans and elevations of the project, the different pathologies have been located using the following color code to later analyze them and propose specific solutions for the repair of each one of them.