Cartilla de Mobiliario Urbano de Bogotá 2016-2019

Project Details

Bogotá Urban Furniture Manual 2016-2019

DESCRIPTION

For the design of the city’s new Urban Furniture Manual, we began with a specific question: how can the elements of public space be adapted to new forms of use, encounter, accessibility, and permanence?

The proposal incorporates principles of universal design, with particular attention to older adults, children, people of short stature, and diverse bodies. Rather than producing isolated objects, it proposes a series of furniture families capable of responding to different scales of interaction in the city: sitting, waiting, gathering, protecting a tree, parking a bicycle, leaning, talking, or spending time together.

The manual brings together elements such as tree guards, bicycle racks, bollards, urban benches, rural benches, and support systems for public space. Each piece was conceived in terms of strength, durability, and ease of maintenance, but also through more efficient construction processes, high-performance materials, and solutions capable of reducing waste, simplifying assembly, and extending the service life of the components.

These are small-scale pieces that organize behavior, enable moments of pause, care for bodies, and shape everyday forms of coexistence. At this scale, the city becomes more legible, more accessible, and more welcoming.

DETAILS

Location

Bogotá D. C. – Colombia

Meters above the sea level

2625

Average annual temperature

13.1 °C

Year

2016-2019

Client

Workshop Public Space – Secretaría Distrital de Planeación, Bogotá

Design

Yemail Architecture

Project team on the design of the furniture

Antonio Yemail + Robert Nieto + Martín Pareja + Jose Caceres

Team work of the design manual of the furniture

Monica Ocampo Villegas – Principal Workshop of the Public Space 2018 – 2019
Esteban Castro Left – Principal Workshop of the Public Space 2016 – 2017
Antonio Email – To support the Design of Product
Adam Farías Forero – Support in the Design and layout
Anyela Vivieth Mamian Ramos – Legal support Attorney SDP
Ofce Advisory press and communication – Editorial coordination

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING ENTITIES WORKSHOP OF PUBLIC SPACE

Jhon Duque
Juliana Zambrano
Fabian Lenes
Carolina Franky
Robert Castle
YingFang Chen
Catalina Parra
BOGOTA BOTANICAL GARDEN
Jorge Vergara
DISTRICT SECRETARIAT OF MOBILITY
David Uniman
TRANSMILENIO SA
Diego Fernando Moya

Equipo de trabajo de la implementación

DISTRICT SECRETARIAT OF MOBILITY
Juan Pablo Bocarejo Suescún
Secretary of Mobility
Claudia Andrea Diaz Acosta
Head Ofce of Road Safety
Carlos Urrego
José Luis Hoyos
Juliana Zambrano
Computer Platforms Bogota
Skye Duncan
Fabrizio Prati
Lucia de la Mora
Javier Guerra
National Association of City Transportation Ocials

Photo Credits

Yemail Architecture
José Luis Hoyos
Juliana Zambrano

Categories: 4.1 Infrastructure, City