"Chinampa" Low Income Housing in Cartagena Colombia

Cartagena Colombia city has its potential. The dynamics of the city that constitute these potentials are the most powerful factors guiding us in shaping the design. Apart from creating space in a specific area, architecture is constructing a living space for that city.
A Low Income Housing Project In Cartagena Colombia with specific attention to the impact of sustainability on the construction of the urban form and the relationship with the specific qualities of the urban site.

Specifically with a territory that has been part of the process of urban growth in the intermediate Colombian cities as a result of violence (in recent decades) and in the search for sources of work and survival of these processes. The occupation of the territory has manifested itself as a process of growth along the water fronts, having a direct impact water bodies of rivers and lagoons, which have provided a constant deterioration of the ecological structure of the territory, but also establishing precarious and insecure social conditions.

The concept of sustainability is considered here in its broadest meaning, now accepted by the scientific community, which includes - besides the evaluations related to indicators and quantitative parameters - wider considerations, related to the cultural and social implications of the project. A cognitive approach to conjugate the historical, cultural, architectural, technological and environmental aspects, with the ability to recognize and interact with the main parameters that characterize the project site.

Chinampa is a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.
The Aztecs built Chinampas because the grounds upon which the capital of Tenochtitlan stood consisted of wetlands, and the Chinampas provided enough...

This is done in terms of the relationship between urban morphology and building forms, existing and planned, and as for a proper understanding and use of natural resources and physical environment (climate, light, sound, green system etc.), that characterize the existing environment. - An Eco-compatibility assessment of various options of the project and ideal communication modalities for design and technology choices.

In Collaboration With An Thanh Nhan