Colegio wayuu preescolar y primaria para la rancheria Tekia km 27 via Maicao

Abstract

The proposed preschool and primary school project for Ranchería Wayuu, Tekia, is an educational facility located at Km 27 via Maicao, La Guajira. It is developed from the need to provide a decent space that responds to the spatial and functional requirements of the educational population (80 children and 4 Wayuu educators); which lacks adequate infrastructure to develop its own pedagogical and learning methods identified during the fieldworkprocess. For the project approach, it was necessary to take into account the will of the Wayuu community to allow detailed access to their environment, their ideals about education, listen to their needs and future projections through various visits, interviews, census of skills, recognition and analysis of their problems; conducting exploratory, descriptive, and explanatory research and compiling the information on which the architectural project was founded. Resulting in a multifunctional space, with spatial connectivity, climatic comfort and harmonious connection to its surroundings and immediate cultural identity; that recognizes and respects the sociocultural characteristics of the community and the autonomy of the Wayuu culture;introducing new paths of educational progress for the community and opening the discussion regarding that the current Colombian school infrastructure is designed for the educational model of Western thought which ignores the characteristic cultural factors of the Wayuu culture.