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 can no longer descend from the eastern mountains and reach the Bogotá River through the urban surface, victims of a forced disintegration. The same is true for citizens, who see how the major roads that connect the city absurdly end up fragmenting it into small, isolated fragments, lacking direct links and connections that allow passage from one place to another.

Bogota’s space is made up of discontinuous fragments, and the subway and its infrastructure have the potential both to accentuate a negative reality and to generate a change that translates into radical improvement. It is this pared-down city, transformed into an arrhythmic time, that makes the life of a Bogotá resident a disjointed experience composed of a series of moments in which one sleeps, works, studies, or even rests in distant moments that make movement an obligatory, lengthy, but also unpleasant and tortuous theme.

The discontinuous rhythm of our society has long and short periods. In the long cycle (the years), collective memory no longer records the hills and rivers as fundamental sustenance; we have forgotten the native landscape and no longer touch it, even now, nor do we see it, because it has been erased by the buildings and infrastructure that utilize it.

In the short cycle (the days), arrhythmia is suffered thanks to the predominant role of the car, the main machine of public space, responsible for congesting and polluting life; Production and educational centers are overflowing during rush hour, but are terrifying and desolate places at night, during vacation periods, and on weekends.

Time, the most valuable non-renewable resource, is not consciously controlled by residents, much less by society as a whole; we have not built a project for responsible urban living and, therefore, we are forced to live under the imposed rhythm of the growing urban sprawl that invades the geography and steals away moments that could be moments of happiness.

The infrastructure of our time is thus understood, for the purposes of the Analysis course, as an opportunity to reunite the parts that have been separated by urban evolution. It is assumed to be a physical form that must reestablish continuous natural cycles so that ecosystems and humans move more fluidly in the space-time of the city.

The challenge is to ensure that an elevated metro doesn’t become a new scar on the city, but rather, allows each station to be an opportunity for renewal, opening up new spaces with parks that generate mixed-use central areas capable of addressing the shortcomings of each neighborhood through which the metro line passes.

It’s not just about the technical aspect of intermodal transportation, which must necessarily be associated with the metro system; each point where the line touches down in the city must also be considered as a comprehensive project for each station and its surroundings. In other words, the large scale of the metro’s infrastructure is born from the small scale, which provides guidelines for formulating the system’s architectural design.

With this urban acupuncture generated by the metro system, many opportunities arise to reconnect the biotic relationships of the landscape, generate new businesses and opportunities in each location, but above all, forms of natural and social integration emerge through interconnected green, public, and communal spaces that seek to organize the movements of people traveling on the metro system, as well as generate meeting places for the inhabitants of the neighborhoods that will be crossed by this city’s commitment.

The city generates architecture; architecture generates the city. The proposed project must be able to construct an idea of ​​it in which intervention strategies become strategic operations that allow for the creation of spatiotemporal continuity between ecosystems and people.