Diseño de colegio de educación básica y media, barrio el Gaitán, Bucaramanga

Abstract

The objective of the study arises from the analysis of the schools in the neighborhood of El Gaitan in Bucaramanga. The only existing school that provides elementary and middle school education (Jorge Eliecer Gaitán school) is in poor physical conditions and is located in an area through which a fault line passes, because it is close to the western escarpment of Bucaramanga, endangering the lives of children and young people due to mass movements and landslides. Based on this, a more detailed study of the school that is currently located in the neighborhood is carried out, obtaining a list of specific characteristics with which it does not have and, in addition, a new site is studied to implement the new school. For the above mentioned, the design of a school for elementary and middle school education that can meet the academic, social and cultural needs of the community, creating decent, high quality spaces, implementing flexibility, offering a comfortable and safe place where they can develop their skills and activities and integrating all the people of the neighborhood, giving the possibility of using spaces in a complementary way in favor of the growth of each person that conforms the neighborhood, because a school is understood as part of a community and finally, achieving a correct integration with its immediate environment.