The Culture Factory, which aims to become a center of artistic and transformative experiences for thousands of citizens, will be inaugurated this Thursday. The building was built keeping its old facade (Coltabaco’s headquarters) on the corner of Carrera 50 and Calle 40, in Barranquilla.
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The building, which will be the new headquarters of the District School of Art and Popular Traditions (EDA), is so far one of the 12 works set by the District to inaugurate in the course of 2022.
Next March, during the daytime, it will begin to receive students from the 11 artistic training programs of the EDA
“Next March, during the day, it will begin to receive students from the 11 artistic training programs of the EDA,” announced a District spokesman.
Building It has nine floors11,142 square meters of construction and 20 multiple spaces that favor the creation and study of various artistic areas.
An auditorium for 340 spectators, as well as a square, a theater, and wide corridors that have a great relationship with the wind coming from the Magdalena River and the Caribbean Sea, are some of the spaces that converge when it comes to creating.
The design of the building
This is the Factory of Culture from the outside.
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With 569 thousand 870 kilos of steel, the red spiral staircase that already distinguishes the building was made. On each level, the classrooms equipped with technological resources are found, and in the upper part of the building there is room for a large terrace, in which there are 174 solar panels, which allow the operation with clean energies of a part of the cultural complex.
A team of architects and engineers from the Zurich Institute of Technology (Switzerland), associated with the University of the North, was in charge of the design.
The lines of the new EDA have already been awarded at the International Architecture Awards, which is one of the most prestigious distinctions in architecture worldwide, which is granted by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture, together with the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.
The expectation set
From the Factory of Culture, 2,800 students can be trained annually, delivering up to 800 new labor technicians to the city
“From the Factory of Culture, 2,800 students can be trained annually, delivering up to 800 new labor technicians to the city in the 11 training programs of the School. The important job opportunity that the EDA means for the artistic sector of the city also stands out. A team of 200 people between coordinators, tutors and accompanying professionals works in it”, announced the District Secretary of Culture.
The construction is part of the action plan of the initiative of Sustainable and competitive citiessponsored jointly by the IDB, through the Swiss Secretariat of Economic Affairs (Seco), in agreement with Findeter and its Sustainable Cities program, in which Barranquilla appears.
The expectation increases if one takes into account that the Barrio Abajo, headquarters of the Factory, received the title of Asset of Cultural Interest from the District the previous year.
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“We project this space as a center for the generation of ideas, for academic work and for the development of cultural products, which give Barranquilla a boost as a cultural district. We hope to grow little by little, until we manage to have all the sessions, including the night one again, to give more opportunities to the people of Barranquilla to develop their talent”, affirmed the Secretary of Culture and Patrimony of the District, María Teresa Fernández.
“La Fábrica has the implicit purpose of becoming a regional epicenter of creative dialogues, poetic production and the meeting of coexistence and transmedial for the development of the public. That is why the nature of the investment made by the Collegiate Body for Administration and Decision (OCAD) in the project”, recently concluded Nibaldo Castro, artist and cultural manager.
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