green machine

A proposal to value housing in direct proportion to its architectural, functional, structural, and innovative quality, achieved through the use of bamboo or guadua. Bamboo or guadua as a material of rapid growth and versatile handling, in addition to its imprint of environmental conservation, allowing for the handmade construction of structural elements, dividers, and enclosures for homes, warehouses, sheds, stores, furniture, crafts, and artifacts. This valuation is reflected in the habitation qualification of the housing, with opportunities for adapting spaces for new rooms, work areas, and spaces for commercial and recreational activities.

The quality of housing and the urban environment derives from the efficient use of land and the house with possibilities for growth through its progressive and incremental nature. The proposal integrates the possibility for each individual or family to implement or complete the housing through specific parameters of structural design, load-bearing, and roofing. The arrangement of the structure contains and articulates the entirety of the habitable space and its relationship with the proposed urban fabric.

Groupings in morphological and typological terms, in their articulated and collective vision, allow for the channeling of the intrinsic forces of the communities that call us to strengthen social, cultural, and environmental awareness relationships.

A proposal with added value derived from access to homeownership (users becoming owners) and the possibility of investing, modifying, improving, and expanding the home environment in its relationship with the context of the group and urbanism.

The sense of articulation, totality, and efficiency in the spatial response of housing presents an opportunity to mend the gaps caused by the segregation, exclusion, and polarization of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in Cartagena—as a replicable model for other areas of the country. With these premises, the project contributes to the social and participatory construction of the "Bicentennial City