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Architects: Taller Architects, taller de arquitectura de bogotá
- Area: 26174 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: Alfa, Hi-Light Industries, P&P Prefabricaciones y proyectos, Pizacryll, Ventanar









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The building of the General Archive of the Nation, designated as a national cultural interest asset by a court ruling in October 2007, reflects the modern archival philosophy and, combined with its collection of historical documents, performs a "miracle" of communicating memory through architecture.
It is hard to achieve a poetic aesthetic when designing archives because they are essentially warehouses, enclosed storage structures, with no sunlight, water, wind, or even dust. In this sense, an archive building is anti-architecture! Even caves need light for us to fully grasp their spatiality. These major limitations could only be overcome through the imagination of a great architect, and above all, through the essential and intrinsic qualities of architecture.