PROJECT:
THE PROGRESSION OF HISTORY IN FIVE ACTS
FIFTH ACT: ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION
My architecture thesis project focused on studying the gathering space of my maternal family. It involved a popular housing unit located in the center of the Suba district in Bogotá, D.C., which was built in 1972.
This project stemmed from the desire to highlight the value that exists in the processes of transformation of popular housing, where the transformation of space responds to the progression of history and the needs of its inhabitants, rather than ideal, generic, and prototypical solutions that distance architects from the specific needs of a community.
The project was divided into two stages.
The first stage involved research that gathered information about the history of the house and the family, and it became evident that family dynamics were responsible for the transformation of the space.
During the second stage, strategies were sought to involve the residents in the design process.
In this framework, my role as an architect was to design tools that made the activity of designing and making decisions about space accessible to people without an academic background in architecture.
Below is a presentation with more
details about this project.
