Power and domination
An open eye on the 21st century’s urban conflicts in Central Bogotà
Students: Silvio Pennesi
Title: Power and domination: An open eye on the 21st century’s urban conflicts in Central Bogotà
Semester: 2017 Spring
Teachers: prof. dr. ir. Tom Avermaete, dr. ir. Klaske Havik, Jorge Mejia Hernandez
This project is represented in our chair's contribution to the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial: Tools of the Architect and the TU Delft Archiprix Preselection 2018.
This project tries to establish a dialogue between different types of reflections and intentions. ‘Le fil rouge’ that keeps everything together is a renovated idea of ownership for la Perseverancia, a working class neighbourhood located in the area of central Bogotà (Colombia). The typological transformations I imagined to introduce in this area are informed by the idea of trading private space for collective economic purposes. The interventions should be carried out by the local population through a modular construction system that represent the real outcome of this architectural exploration. A simple architectural tool that being highly adaptable can be used to create small production spaces within this dense urban environment. In this way two resources already present in the area (local culture and self-construction practices) can be unlocked together. I attempted to activate a radical transformation in this area translating in an architectural strategy a reality that already exists but only in the form of potential.
More information about this project can be found here.
