In-VISIBLES Mariakmila Bernal Moreno Supervisor: Simone Koch
In the decade of the sixties, Colombia was submerged in an internal violent conflict, the genesis of it was the dispute over the land in certain strategic locations. Land dispossessions became recurrent and the rural population had to crowd into cities to be safer. Located in Bogota, the architecture aims to create spaces to empower the community, build and strengthen neighbourhood links and represent the value of their collective memory, the goal is to re dignify the victims and create a sense of belonging in a foreign context for them. The memorial is the backbone of the project. But how can the memorial stop being a disconnected and isolated element? By providing an architecture that establishes a bridge between the city, the monument, and the community, a series of new spatial relationships are recreated between the volumes allowing the memorial to play an active role in the city and people’s daily life. The memorial can transcend its function and its limits when a series of public spaces within a more user-friendly scale is implemented as a bridge between the memorial and the city. The project recreates an urban space while commemorating and making visible a population that has been put aside until now.