De los Andes Café
Project: New offices for the coffee mill and soil laboratory
Location: Municipality of Andes, Antioquia, Colombia.
Intervetion Area: 400 M2
Project Scope: Architectural distribution and workplace typology. Colors palette, styling, construction supervising, supplier coordination.
Cooperativa de Andes is a multi-active non-profit coffee cooperative with 3,539 partners, coffee farmers, of whom 1,044 are women, of these, 233 are heads of households located in Andes Antioquia.
Andes is a municipality in the Antioquia Department, Colombia. It P is located on the western Colombian Andes mountain range. The
distance reference from Medellin city, the capital of Antioquia S Department, is 117 km.
The cooperative is the largest in Colombia, it has been in the market for more than 50 years consolidating the market share and presence in Antioquia’s coffee value chain.
Previously the offices were located in the downtown area of the municipality of Andes, around 20 minutes from the Coffee Mill Plant where the main activity takes place.
The Cooperative was looking to centralize the functions (production, staff and management) and in addition to this setting up a soils laboratory.