Modelo unidad habitacional y renovación urbana en Tumaco.

Abstract

In the area of the Colombian Pacific there is great potential for scenery as well as cultural riches, but it is contrasted by an armed conflict that prevails in the populations that inhabit these territories. This situation is also manifested in the municipality of Tumaco, which is a parallel world due to the union of terrestrial urban centers with semi-aquatic environments, involuntary resettlement being a consequence and probably the only immediate solution to the serious problems of displacement that the population faces. Given the possible forms of intervention and solution, the “MANGROVE” project is a proposal with an urban design that responds to different factors, which can turn the periphery into a connection point between land and water areas, improving this marginal sector. The series of urban and architectural developments has to empower a resilient community from the harsh reality of its environment, which in its first phase proposes the design of a housing unit oriented to the traditional concepts of palafittic housing in the Colombian Pacific, but with characteristics and contemporary technologies. Among the objectives is to design with technical, traditional and sustainable criteria spaces for social inclusion within the urban and architectural projection, thus the projected housing models achieve a sense of belonging with the community of the Puentes Palafíticos neighborhood.