Uploaded on 2020-06-03 by Alexander Welby

Last year I worked on an urban planning project located at the top of the west mountains in Bogotá, in a neighborhood called Tuna Alta in Suba. Tuna Alta intervention proposes an improvement of public space for the community, based on the understanding of an emerging logic in the neighborhood, that is responsible for structuring relations in between the people and places. To think about the development of this place, the community was involved to talk about the usage of the resulting spaces and how to integrate them to their own aesthetics, by using graffiti as a tool to make this new places their own. In this way the project proposes to link all these existing places, relationships and events through public space, and working from there to generate support spaces for this interaction and thus entail the same cultural significance. For this, I propose a change in the road network, creating a circuit, joining the main roads of the neighborhood that were apart. In addition, the use of materials for the project, propose a low impact on their environment, which is why ecological permeable concrete pavers and recycled rubber tires are used for spaces like bike paths and pathways.