OMA wins bogotá centro administrativo nacional (CAN) masterplan
all images courtesy OMA

 

 

OMA will design the new the bogotá centro administrativo nacional (can) is positioned as a new civic center, located at the midpoint of calle 26 avenue, the city’s main axis that has symbolically charted its growth from the historic downtown to the airport and the international gateway of colombia. with a footprint as large as the national mall in washington dc, this new city center will serve as the city’s government headquarters, with additional mixed use program of residential, educational, retail and cultural developments,the proposed masterplan utilizes a curved, public space axis to connect the adjacent natural parks to calle 26 and link the existing districts. with a single gesture, the arc achieves a unified system of green, infrastructural, and programmatic networks. the new axis divides the site into three districts: an office zone that connects to the existing financial district, an institutional/ governmental zone that is linked to the existing cultural spaces and recreational parks and an educational campus connected to the existing university. these districts are unified by a green path that extends the meandering paths of the simon bolivar park to the national university plaza at other end of the site.

 

 

 

OMA wins bogota centro administrativo nacional masterplan
OMA wins bogota masterplan
all images courtesy OMA

 

 

OMA wins bogota centro administrativo nacional masterplan
OMA wins bogota masterplan
all images courtesy OMA

 

 

OMA wins bogota centro administrativo nacional masterplan
OMA wins bogota masterplan
all images courtesy OMA

 

 

this park axis will be programmed with cultural attractions and a bike path that will extend to bogota’s highly successful pedestrian ciclovia network. oma’s proposal shifts the city’s historic downtown center, for which le corbusier had been commissioned to masterplan from 1949-1953, demonstrating the city’s longstanding commitment to urban planning. the CAN masterplan will be the largest built institutional master plan in latin america after oscar neimeyer’s brasilia, built in the sixties.

 

 

OMA wins bogota centro administrativo nacional masterplan
OMA wins bogota masterplan
all images courtesy OMA

 

 

OMA wins bogota centro administrativo nacional masterplan
OMA wins bogota masterplan
all images courtesy OMA

 

project info:

 

status: competition 2013
client: empresa virgilio barco
location: bogotá, colombia
site: 870,000 m2
program: 680 acres (2,750,000 m2) of total buildable area / 72 acres (29,000 m2) of public open space
-982,000 m2 government offices
-683,000 m2 residential
-650,000 m2 offices
-160,000 m2 university campus
-85,000 m2 cultural (including museum of memory)
-75,000 m2 retail
-60,000 m2 hotel
-55,000 m2 hospital
lead designer/ masterplanner: OMA
partner-in-charge: shohei shigematsu
team: sandy yum, daniel quesada lombo, yolanda do campo, denis bondar, ahmadreza schricker, cass nakashima,
jake forster; with isaiah miller, maria saavedra, andrew mack, sean billy kizy, caroline corbett, christopher
kovel, simona solorzano
local architect: gomez + castro
mobility consultant: carlos moncada
financial consultant: oscar borrero
sustainability consultant: esteban martinez