A unique architectural sanctuary and dwelling experience in the heart of Bogotá.

Casa Macarena sits on the slopes of the Monserrate hill within the beautiful residential surroundings of Barrio La Macarena. The building overlooks Centro Internacional just steps away from urban action: Museums and galleries, restaurants, parks, and the most important national institutions.

Conceived by  Estudio Monumental, this exclusive architectural work offers eight loft-type units with exceptional design: high ceilings, noble materials open to your senses, forms y techniques hybridize honoring the best of Colombian modern architectural traditions merging with global contemporary trends. In the exciting, complex Bogotà’s metropolis there is no better place to stay than barrio La Macarena, either as tourist or as long-term resident. The best of local art and cuisine, gathering and leisure hubs meet in a contemporary urban community, global and local at once.

 

Casa Macarena’s design partly originates in re-creating qualities and values of a modest-looking architecture characterized nonetheless by excellent spaces, made with artisanal and contemporary materials and techniques in close connexion with local-vernacular, and modern traditions. A trend known as “escuela del ladrillo” (Bogotá’s ‘brick school’).

Those mostly domestic, small-scale “Colombian architectures” originated during the second half of the 20th century and were honoured in Europe—particularly with Anne Berty’s “Architectures colombiennes” book and exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1981. The ‘brick school’ came preceded by modernist international architecture that was impeccably executed in Colombia, leaving as well a relevant legacy.

Like Pegasus, a metamorphic mythological animal, Casa Macarena fuses traces of those legacies.