This project is developed under the sponsorship of the Venezuelan National System of Youth and Children Orchestras and Choirs and the Wayuu Taya Foundation, which seeks to systematize the instruction and the individual and collective practice of music through symphony orchestras and choirs, as instruments of social organization and humanistic development of the poorest communities in the country, to open future possibilities from the revaluation of the local music culture.
The Wayuu indigenous community is located in western Venezuela, and in the eastern Colombia, straddling the two countries.
The collective construction par excellence of this people is the arbor: wood structure coated palm without side walls.
The project builds a traditional arbor but in a civic scale; this scale has never be handled by the Wayuu people, because they have not been confronted with programs and projects of this nature and of this magnitude.
This new scale requires new materiality because the traditional materials of the arbor cannot cope with this new scale. Therefore the building arises with concrete structure, using the existing adobe clay soil for enclosures. The sous-face of the arbor is proposed in finished staves of mangrove.
Below the arbor the music classrooms, the concert hall, the administrative and service activities find shelter, joining a public space; as an arbor, this space has no limits in its relationship with the outside.
Under the great arbor, in shade, the Wayuu children and the architectural program find their shelter.