The place and sustainability
Since Vitruvius, it has been inevitable to separate the study of architecture into three main themes: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas. In this way, we have focused on understanding that every human-made construction must have a structure, a use, and an aesthetic. In David Delgado’s lecture, these three parameters take on great importance and are enriched […]
Bogotá Unit Workshop
Es importante saber que el taller de la Unidad Bogotá siempre intenta establecer un vínculo entre el eIt is important to know that the Bogotá Unit workshop always attempts to establish a connection between the student and the territory occupied by the city and, therefore, with the culture and ways of life it contains. It […]
The subway as an opportunity to reconnect neighborhoods, the city, the territory, and its rhythms.
In the age of information and permanent digital connectivity, the ever-increasing discontinuity in time and territorial space becomes evident as a great paradox. Never before has the possibility of immediate knowledge about global events existed, and social media allows us to discover people and places previously unimaginable. However, under this same contemporaneity, birds and rivers […]
The Map as a creative synthesis
A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE CITY AND ARCHITECTURE. The Advanced Unit Analysis course I teach, which supports the workshops of Alberto Miani and Daniel Bermúdez, is understood as part of the foundation for decisions regarding the degree project. For this reason, its structure is based on the way the student approaches the project from a perspective […]
From the Analysis course
For the purposes of the analyses presented here, the architectural project is understood as a thought process through which reality is transformed to allow for beautiful human life on earth and under the sky. This presupposes an understanding of the spatial and geographic conditions in which one lives, but it also implies the recognition of […]
The intermediate space and the architecture of learning.
Architecture, as we understand it, is based on three wisdoms that must be understood and intertwined: the wisdom of ecosystems, the wisdom of the craft itself, and the wisdom of the communities that inhabit the sites. This systemic approach to the project as a way of creating an architectural composition focuses on time rather than […]
A Center for Life
In the information age, Bogotá’s historic center presents an opportunity to weave the nation’s identity from the landscape, encompassing its defining heritage in a comprehensive manner. The boundaries between the natural and the cultural, the tangible and intangible, the movable and immovable, are blurred. The dynamics of its experience are recognized as a fundamental aspect […]
The inhabited void. The El Parque Residences and the concavity of the Bogotá horizon.
Rogelio Salmona’s El Parque Residences are not a housing project but rather an idea of the city. It is a way of bringing together spatio-temporal elements scattered throughout Bogotá to re-present them as a recognizable and therefore habitable unit, within which an idea of the city and society is formed. All of this is presented […]
A new notion of closeness
The window of the new dimension The rapid—and perhaps senseless—era we were on track to embark upon was surprised by a small but powerful ally who managed to pull the train of our civilization off its tracks and steer it toward a new reality, one that is currently very little visible. The unbalanced and unsustainable […]
