CAZA Architects

SURBA

Project Location: Colombia

Servita Arts Complex

How can architecture bring together arts and municipal services?

Servita Arts Complex in Bogotá brings together an unlikely pairing of buildings: an art museum in a historic home and a series of municipal service facilities. The Complex centers around Villa Servita, a historic landmark that is free and open to the public, and houses an emerging art gallery. Due to the structure’s landmark restrictions, it was prohibited to build anything taller than the house on this plot of land. To accommodate these restrictions, we created an interconnected subterranean network of municipal buildings, designed with parametric design strategies, that wrap around the property in a snake-like configuration.

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A vision of the future rooted in heritage
The design of Servita Arts Complex embraces the architectural and artistic traditions of Colombia, creating a municipal center that embodies the aspirations of the community while remaining grounded in its heritage. The shifting geometric configuration of the complex was inspired by the folding planes of the Andes Mountains and references the Post-War and Contemporary Colombian art found in the Villa Servita. The project incorporates modular planning principles and reflects metabolic architecture by integrating energy flows and circulation patterns that connect both the arts and civic functions.

LA 100

Can a mixed-use complex be both contemporary and contextual?

La 100, CAZA’s inaugural project in Colombia, demonstrates how a contemporary urban development can remain deeply connected to its cultural and ecological context. Designed as a multi-modal mixed-use complex, La 100 combines modularplanning and metabolic architecture to create an adaptable, energy-efficient, and resilient hub for Bogotá’s fast-changing urban fabric.

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Situated at the crossroads of 100th Street and 7th Avenue—directly across from the city’s main financial center—La 100 integrates high-end offices, hotels, and residences in a dense, pedestrian-friendly environment. Its design is rooted in local tradition, with each tower clad in a unique, vibrantly pigmented façade, echoing Colombia’s history of richly colored brick construction.

The buildings are organized into a flexible, modular system that incorporates terraces on the mountainside façades, offering panoramic views of Bogotá’s surrounding landscape. Interwoven between the towers, a series of public parks and landscaped areas create distributive networks of green space, which not only encourage social interaction but also contribute to the site’s microclimatic resiliency.

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By combining innovative parametric design with eco-industrialization strategies—such as optimized energy flows and shared infrastructure—La 100 is more than a cluster of buildings: it is a sustainable, forward-looking model of urban density that remains rooted in place and culture.

La Vega

How can new buildings elevate and integrate into their context?

The design for Hue Hotel rethinks what tropical architecture can be in the 21st century. Embracing the lush climate but drawing attention inward, the bulbous design arrays a stack of interlocking rings that produce a procession of social spaces across terraces, roof gardens, and hotel amenities. Guests move between the shared communal spaces in the central enclosure to a collection of bespoke private rooms along the upper reaches of the building.

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Communal Spaces
Social spaces and gathering areas are integrated into the interlocking ring structures, designed using parametricdesign principles to optimize form and function. The interiors create dramatic and unexpected effects with local materials, offering elevated environments that feel rooted in their place while supporting resiliency and efficient energy use. The modular structure allows flexibility over time, aligning with the goals of metabolic architecture and sustainable development in the region.