Centro de desarrollo infantil barrio La Cumbre, Floridablanca

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis develops the architectural design of a Child Development Center (CDI) in the La Cumbre neighborhood, Floridablanca, with a capacity for 95 children aged 0 to 6 years. The study is based on an urban, demographic, and environmental analysis of the sector, which identifies an approximate child population of 10,599 children, indicating a significant potential demand for early childhood care services. As a territorial precedent, an infrastructure previously built on the project site as a CDI never entered operation. This situation guides the project toward rethinking the facility from an architectural perspective, emphasizing appropriate site implementation, human scale, and spatial coherence with the surrounding urban context. The proposal follows a strictly architectural approach, grounded in the technical guidelines established by the GIPI (Guide for the Implementation of Infrastructure Projects for Early Childhood Care) and current Colombian technical standards. The project incorporates biophilic architectural principles and including natural lighting, cross ventilation, integration of vegetation, and interior exterior spatial relationships, aiming to create healthy and adequate environments for early childhood development. The proposed capacity responds to neighborhood-scale criteria and distributed coverage logic, conceiving the CDI as an urban facility integrated into the residential fabric. The final proposal consolidates a flexible, functional, and context-sensitive infrastructure intended to enhance the immediate urban environment and strengthen the local early childhood care network.