Architectural Design with Roots: A Civic Facility in Pacho, Cundinamarca Part 2 Project 2024 Paula Daniela Ruiz Guzmán Pilot University of Colombia Bogota | Colombia In a globalized world, the influence of metropolitan agglomerations on the smaller settlements close to them favors the replacement of local construction traditions with those usual in the core of these agglomerations. In this way, local architecture is replaced by buildings without roots.This project explores the capacity of a reinterpretation of the construction traditions that forged the landscape of one of these settlements, the municipality of Pacho in Colombia, to counteract homogenization, in the redesign of an existing sports center, a school and a library.A review of historical antecedents identified a metallurgical industry and coffee cultivation as factors that conditioned a deep-rooted architecture, which cannot be reproduced but can be evoked.The four elements of architecture, proposed by Semper (1851), suggested a way of combining materials to stage a tectonic drama, in which memory is deployed in such a way that it creates a place. Paula Daniela Ruiz Guzmán Tutor(s) Rafael Fernando Francesconi Latorre