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Design in the Age of Crisis
Site Location
Quito, Ecuador
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Term
Summer 2020
Class
USFQ CADI Research Team
Design Team
Daniela Alcocer, Martin Cartuche
Awards
Exhibited at the London Design Biennale 2021\
Published in Revista de Arquitectura, Universidad de Chile 2022
The proposal is a utopian project that seeks to reinvent the way of doing architecture and urbanism, putting various strategic points of the city of Quito into analysis.
La Argelia is a vulnerable zone to natural disasters and climate change. Here; popular housing is strongly consolidated but deals with severe challenges in terms of access and sustainability.
The project seeks to create an urban revolution, a return to the communion between architecture and mountains. La Argelia will be the crown of the city, an image conceived by Bruno Taut as a place where arts and knowledge converge.
This point of union between architecture and mountains will revitalize the city and open the way to a new architecture, a more sustainable way of living with respect for nature and adaptation of popular housing to the new conception of the city.
Design in the Age of Crisis
