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MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPLEX FOR RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD EL VERGEL, BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
The project aims to answer two worries: 1. How can I create an architectural project that reflects the impressions that the books “Alice through the looking glass” and “Alice in wonderland” awake in me? 2. How does it constitute as a meeting point of the everyday life of a poor neighborhood? As answer to this worries I decided to link each one with a concept that identifies it. In the first the PARALEL WORLD was recognized as direct reference with the forementioned text and linked with it the intentions: establishment of a radical contrast between the Project and its surroundings as well as the idea of coexisting worlds inside one. The second concern was linked with MULTIFUNCTIONALITY according to which the concentration of multiple activities will make the project a focal point of the sector dynamics. Subsequently it was identified an area of the city of Bogotá in which the project could produce an urban renovation and at the same time could supply the needs of the resident community. The chosen zone is adjacent to the “Techo wetland” which has the appropriate conditions to solve the exercise considering that it has urban problems like: absence of green zones, desiccation and invasion of the wetland, self constructed land, lack of equipment and dilapidated road network.
Access to a parallel world
Multifuncionality
As solution for these problems the project proposes to create three stripes: one residential, a wetland protection area and an equipment stripe. Those stripes would be linked by a cross itinerary that not only connects two neighborhoods but also stimulate the use of the “Wetland-Park”. The building is constituted as “CONTAINER OF PARALLEL WORLDS”, it creates a contrast between closed, stable an order and opened, instable
Urban Stripes
Wetland access into the project framed by a scale’s change
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“Ciudad de Cali” Avenue Residential stripe Green stripe Equipment stripe Cross itinerary Plot