THE CONCRETE
At the time, the project was widely disseminated in official and alternative media and the contest for its design and construction took place amidst a diversity of opinions found in the political and intellectual field, since the mayor at the time, Gustavo Petro Urrego (2012- 2014), as an alternative to the central government plans to locate this type of project in the urban periphery of the cities, proposed for its implementation a lot donated by the Capital District, which was located in one of the priority sectors for the present and future urban development of Bogotá.
The uninhabited space, everyday places that are exposed to disuse, abandonment, the common space as a metaphor for the collective responsibility that lies in oblivion. When the community reinvents itself and must face challenges that put them to the test to understand the tolerance that costs so much.
The “non-place” is a term coined by the French anthropologist, Marc Augé, to describe those places of transience that do not have enough importance to be considered as “places”.
Mrs. Edelmira arrived in Bogotá in 2007 full of illusions and with the relief that her eldest son Oscar would be away from the bad influences that had been taking place in the neighborhood of her town, Girardot Tolima. Armed men who frequented the field in the neighborhood where they lived began recruiting their friends and Edelmira, seeing that the worst was coming, decided to leave to avoid recruiting her son.
A child wanders through the outdoor spaces and terraces offered by the new architecture, surrounded by mosses and altiplano plants that serve as a context to understand the metaphor of rebirth in the essence of being moved from its original place to occupy a new space. strange and further removed from its true roots.
This motivation on the part of the mayor's office on duty, generated a conflict of opinion that, through the pulse of political will, managed to be resolved and managed to give this project the opportunity to become an innovative urban planning pilot that at the time represented numerous economic and social risks. but at the same time it would become an opportunity to reverse the obsolete methodology of expanding cities to their geographical limits with the consequences of uncontrolled urban sprawl already known.
Life emerges on the terraces, plants native to the Andean highlands as a metaphor for rebirth to reveal a new beginning, the desire to live, explore, relate and seek order and balance in their lives.
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The intimate space is a mixture of memories, new and old furniture that adapts to the minimum space offered by the new home; occupying these spaces means meeting again, memories come and sorrows go, only "rebirth" remains as a form of forgiveness.
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Along with her mother and her younger brother, they left Barrancabermeja when armed groups murdered their father. Their destination was Medellín, but due to things in life, she was the victim of a rape from which her daughter Catalina was born. For this reason, they moved to Bogotá where some relatives received them not for long.
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María Camila is a young single mother who arrived in Bogotá in 2006 with her mother and her younger brother. Her daughter Dana Sofía was born two months before the new apartment was handed over to them. She sees life positively, despite Despite the harsh economic conditions, she understands that having her own home will allow her to have a dignified future for her little daughter.
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Social housing as a failed policy of the Status quo.
Facing political and economic hegemonies, the new urbanization plans in Bogotá and the main capitals of Colombia are showing intentions of considering a change in the political model of social housing and in the recognition of the urban paradigm on where it should be located; the revitalization of urban centers as an alternative, Contrary to the dominant idea that tends with the concept of expanding the city to its suburban limits, it presents novel environmental and economic motivations that are promoting a new vision of the city that is calculated with parameters of environmental urgency , cultures of inclusion and new coexistence of multicultural community.
The La Hoja project is framed in this context as a pilot urban planning and social housing laboratory with which the institutionality of the moment (2012-2016 Gustavo Petro, District Mayor) sought to generate a unique opportunity for social housing projects and framed within of the Peace Process, were not located on the outskirts of the city, thereby proposing a new way of linking these vulnerable sectors of the displaced population, in processes closer to the economic, social and cultural dynamics offered by the urban center of a metropolis like Bogota and its Capital District.
"Forgiveness is not easy, forgetting much less"
The resilient space as forgiveness and forgetfulness therapy!
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