El rascacielos en la modernidad de Bucaramanga - Edificio Cámara de Comercio

Abstract

This research seeks to recognize the design and construction innovation strategies that characterized the Bucaramanga Chamber of Commerce building at the time of its construction. Work carried out by the architect Mario Pilonieta González, who comes to our days as one of the most outstanding exponents of modern architecture in the city. Through a descriptive and analytical process, the compositional, technical and symbolic elements that relate the specific and innovative guidelines of the work are distinguished and for whose purpose theoretical and graphic language inputs were collected, the design components present in the building and its implementation context were examined. The previous premises give recognition to the building in its highly complex nature through the mixture of uses, the use of innovative technologies such as the cellular reticular, the use of finishes typical of the territory that were laboriously installed by the workforce that interpreted the details constructive of the designer, use of available natural resources for comfort, the formal guidelines that show him as a faithful representative of the postulates of modernity: tower, bar and platform; , among other reasons why the CCB Building was considered the first skyscraper in Bucaramanga and continues to be one of the cultural landmarks in the image of the city center.