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Casa de la Memoria Museum – Specs

Architects: Juan David Botero      

Location: Cl. 51 #36-66, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia      

Area: 21000.0 m2      

Project Year: 2011      

Photography: Isaac Ramírez Marín    

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Casa de la Memoria Museum – Content

In commemoration of Colombia’s 200 years of independence, rises a proposal to develop an urban project with aims to generate a social and environmental impact in a city’s sector which through the years has been deteriorating by housing invasion and the constant misuse of natural resources.

The project makes part of a master plan called Central-PUI, and it is located at Boston’s neighborhood, in the 10th district of Medellín, Colombia; between the 39th till 36th Carrera and the 54th till 51st street. The design criteria for this project, responds to the need to restore a historical and natural element such as the Santa Elena Stream, an important water source for the collective memory of the inhabitants of the city. Along this stream the first settlements where originated, which later led to the development of the city as known today. This element intends to be the main and guiding axis of the project by the recovery of its historical meaning.

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12 Days of Architecture: Four Newly-Formed Chapters

via GOOD

  We're up to day nine of Architecture for Humanity's homage to the "12 Days of Christmas." Our chapter network reached four new cities in 2012, and we welcome Santa Barbara, San Diego, Honolulu and Manila to our clan. The chapter network enables anyone with passion, steadfastness and design thinking to join our work. (This means you.) The Manila chapter was founded thanks to funds raised in response to flooding in the Philippines that occurred again this fall–meaning the region has a new force addressing this disastrous seasonal occurrence.

  Images courtesy of Architecture for Humanity