Office: EDU - Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano de Medellín | ArchDaily

How to Design a "Building that Breathes": A Sustainable Case Study of Colombia's EDU Headquarters

Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano EDU + Salmaan Craig — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 05:00:00 +0000

In the Colombian city of Medellin, a new headquarters is being constructed for the Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano (Urban Development Company), combining optimal thermal performance with local urban regeneration. The new EDU headquarters is the result of a three-part collaboration between the public company, the private sector, and Professor Salmaan Craig from the Harvard Graduate School of Design who has family roots in the Colombian capital.

Educational Center 'Montecarlo Guillermo Gaviria Correa' / EDU - Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano de Medellín

Florencia Mena — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 11:00:00 +0000

Transformation of Medellin, education and culture have been the main platform for true social changes, where physical infrastructures are essential in the inclusion of quality policies in areas where state hasn’t been before and low levels of human development are common. These spaces are operated from Educational Ministry and Citizen Culture, seeking mainly to improve the education quality to reduce dropout and repetition rates in early grades in elementary school. This project it’s about how to contribute to citizen encounter, integrating these infrastructures to the city, to its inhabitants and the recovery of public space.

UVA El Paraiso / EDU - Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano de Medellín

Igor Fracalossi — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:00:00 +0000

Articulated Units Life, UVA, are urban transformations in the neighborhoods of Medellin, intended for the public meeting, the promotion of sport, recreation, culture and community participation, under the concepts of: