Sistema de plazas
Colón, Panamá /
2014 /
Plan de accesos a la ciudad de Colón, 76 Ha /
Subcontrato (Completado)
ARQUITECTURA: Herreros Arquitectos
RESPONSABLE DEL PROYECTO: Gonzalo Rivas
EQUIPO DE PROYECTO: Beatriz Salinas, Abraham Piñate, María Franco, Raúl García, Iván Guerrero, Lucía Acedo
FOTOGRAFÍAS: estudioHerreros, Fernando Alda

The Urban Corridor of Colón threatened to split the most modest neighborhoods of the city, confining them between its extensions. The project proposes occupying the residual spaces of the highway junctions to equip them with places to relax, children’s games and sports facilities, generating accessibility to leisure and facilities that represent an extraordinary advance in the quality of life of inhabitants who had always lived isolated from public services. Colón is a city with a unique identity founded on an intense multicultural history marked by a festive and colourful indigenous heritage. The geometric patterns of its textiles and the colorations of buildings and containers are incorporated into the project, completing a landscape that dilutes the human, industrial and infrastructural components. The inhabitants of the neighbourhoods served by the System of Plazas immediately established a connection of belonging to the public space by identifying the chromatic codes of the costumes used in the «Congos», a traditional Afro-colonial dance of the area, and of the » molas», a form of textile art indigenous to Panama, brought to the present and converted into an environment of living together.
Sistema de plazas
Colón, Panamá /
2014 /
Plan de accesos a la ciudad de Colón, 76 Ha /
Subcontrato (Completado)
ARQUITECTURA: Herreros Arquitectos
RESPONSABLE DEL PROYECTO: Gonzalo Rivas
EQUIPO DE PROYECTO: Beatriz Salinas, Abraham Piñate, María Franco, Raúl García, Iván Guerrero, Lucía Acedo
FOTOGRAFÍAS: estudioHerreros, Fernando Alda
The Urban Corridor of Colón threatened to split the most modest neighborhoods of the city, confining them between its extensions. The project proposes occupying the residual spaces of the highway junctions to equip them with places to relax, children’s games and sports facilities, generating accessibility to leisure and facilities that represent an extraordinary advance in the quality of life of inhabitants who had always lived isolated from public services. Colón is a city with a unique identity founded on an intense multicultural history marked by a festive and colourful indigenous heritage. The geometric patterns of its textiles and the colorations of buildings and containers are incorporated into the project, completing a landscape that dilutes the human, industrial and infrastructural components. The inhabitants of the neighbourhoods served by the System of Plazas immediately established a connection of belonging to the public space by identifying the chromatic codes of the costumes used in the «Congos», a traditional Afro-colonial dance of the area, and of the » molas», a form of textile art indigenous to Panama, brought to the present and converted into an environment of living together.