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7. Gibraltar Velodrome
From an Open Call for a Velodrome in Bogotá
This proposal responds to a pressing spatial concern: its location on the edge of Bogotá, between the neighborhoods of Bosa and Kennedy, where the city meets the open landscape of the savanna. This liminal condition between the built and the natural, raises a key question: How can we design a velodrome that resists becoming an isolated, introverted object?
Often, this typology tends toward self-containment, disconnected from its surroundings. In contrast, this project rethinks the velodrome not as a standalone monument, but as an open social and environmental infrastructure. Rather than emphasizing form or iconography, the architectural strategy shifts focus toward collective responsibility, embracing the human and non-human, the urban and ecological.
The design introduces a reversed threshold on the site: a large-scale porch or canopy that invites public life under its shelter. This gesture opens the building to the city and its landscape, reframing the velodrome as an inclusive and permeable space at the metropolitan scale.