2008 - 2020

Between 2008 and 2020 we have developed all the consultancy for the Monumental Restoration of this convent cloister in a 2,415 sqm lot dating from 1608, whose process is still underway with an investment in its execution of around $4'000,000 USD. This property is a National Property of Cultural Interest and our firm obtained approval before the IPCC, the Ministry of Culture and the Urban Curatorship. From this investigative process, a 50-page chapter was published in the book "Fine Arts as a History of Cartagena", in which a team of 10 authors tell the story of the Educational Institution of Fine Arts and Sciences of Bolívar, a departmental entity of 130 years that the Convent of San Diego has occupied since 1976. The resulting project combines the 4-century cloister with a complex contemporary building with soundproof basement and elevator, totaling 6,400 sqm of free area and built with the most extensive existing viewpoint in the Historic Center of Cartagena. The atrium of the convent church was completely restored, recovering its original level, installing a contemporary allegorical enclosure to the intervention of architect Luis Felipe Jaspe and incorporating the oldest colonial art museum piece exhibited in Cartagena: the 3-ton Boticcino marble tombstone of the founder and trustee of the Convent of San Diego, the Portuguese merchant Jorge Fernández Gramajo, who died in 1626.