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Productive District for the Ayacucho Tram Corridor Centre for Rural Integration Darién, War Resevoir Contemporary Grounds Adding Up Photography

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Personal contribution: Integrating the intervention of private entities into urban development through “shared value” actions. This strategy facilitates the construction of social impact projects as it acknowledges the public administration’s budgetary inability and proposes the creation of public-private associations and of community cooperatives to renew the city. The document “Creating Shared Value” by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, published by Harvard Business Review in 2011 was fundamental for developing these notions.

PRODUCTIVE DISTRICT FOR THE AYACUCHO TRAM CORRIDOR Topic: Urban planning and regeneration Location: Medellin - Colombia Professors: Giovanna Spera, Juan Esteban Correa and Juliana Bodhert Team: Felipe Walter, Ana M, Atehortua, Santiago Mora, Mariana Mejía, Ana C. Herrera, Daniel Vallejo and Manuela Vallejo Date: 2013 - 2nd Semester / Urban Design Lab - UPB

URBAN PLANNING

The urban renewal project called “Productive District for the Ayacucho Tram Corridor” considers the creation of mobility systems as condensators of urban life. The exercise aims to capitalise on the expensive investment in this infrastructure by designing an urban project with a social and economic impact that spreads across its areas of influence as much as possible. The Ayacucho Tram and both Cablecars (Metrocables), currently under construction, connect the centre of Medellín to middle-class neighbourhoods and precarious suburban areas at the periphery of the city. Social and urban diversity represent hierto a challenge that essentially needs to reconcile the centreoutskirts relationship, by dealing with the centre’s resignification, the city’s expansion towards the hillsides and informal urbanisation. The project consists in a series of actions aiming at configuring the territory from a physical and spatial point of view, as well as a productive programme to enable the communities’ economic improvement. These principles are developed as general guidelines and applied to three pilot projects which are considered to be strategic interventions. 6

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the project connection withinin the province of Antioquia - Colombia

the project connection between the Aburrá Valley (Medellin) , the San Nicolás Valley, and the West Valley

the project central location in Medellin

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CORREDORES DE ESTABILIZACIÓN/INTEGRACIÓN METROCABLE LÍNEA MIRAFLORES Y LÍNEA LA SIERRA

Characterization of priority areas nuclear centralities

linear centralities

transversal centralities

Existing urban system districts 8th, 9th and 10th - Medellín environmentally protected areas

hydric network

pedestrian network

public space

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population density

displaced persons

Creating a “physicospatial” analysis of the territory’s natural and artificial elements allows a pre-existing “structural system” to be identified. According to the interpretation of these layers, 5 guidelines are defined to organise them: 1. Extending: a central zone along the axis marking the Ayacucho Tram, enabling the birth of connections integrated into the transportation system.

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3. Integrating: the suburbs by creating new centralities and strategic corridors encouraging the links with the centre. 4. Connecting: to the displaced population, as a key element in the construction of the outskirts, seeking its connection with urban dynamics. 5. Controlling: the city’s growth that will take place thanks to the territorial improvement, always taking care of environmentally protected areas and preventing settlements in hazardous zones. 8

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SERVICES CORRIDOR Capitalization of infrastructure investment

TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE Tram + Metro + Cablecar

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The creation of a productive programme as a tool for generating wealth and social enhancement tends to form a food processing district and the consolidation of a services corridor. Both activities are validated as they contribute to existing programmes at the municipal and departmental level, making the project a system articulator at the metropolitan level. Activities related to food processing form a productive chain with high value added. It contributes to the Valle de Aburrá’s food sovereignty and to developing a self-sufficient economy.

NUCLEAR CENTRALITIES

The services corridor benefits from the large influx of people which is due to the construction of the transport corridor, shaping a strategic axis that favours private actors’ positioning. To implement such system, and in recognition of the State’s inability to ensure equal conditions for all inhabitants, it is essential to include private actors that allow a system of shared value to emerge, in which the creation of economic value is linked to that of social value. 10

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NUCLEAR CENTRALITIES - professional employment - micro enterprises incubator - professional education for innovation

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commercialization of products production for local consumption transformation of raw materials

TRANSVERSAL CENTRALITIES - employment of displaced and reinserted people - agricultural productive units - agricultural education, basic education

environmentally protected land ecological restoration along hydric net low impact agriculture

1. Clearing up space through in site relocation of families

Linear Centralities: Located in a middle ground between the centre and the outskirts, on a steep-sloped hillside. This territory currently presents morphological and typological homogeneity, an almost total absence of public space and a diffuse location of activities that are complementary to housing. The project proposes the composition of a series of morphologically and typologically heterogeneous Linear Centralities as a gathering element for urban activities, taking in programmes for the creating of new spaces like this:

2. Building linear public space as neighbourhood’s centrality

1. Distinguishing: each centrality according to its location through specific components responding to local needs. 2. Freeing up: land by concentrating constructions in ensembles that are dense enough to support the investment in infrastructure and to create public space, which is currently nonexistent.

3. Connecting centralities through pedestrian walkways’ renewal

3. Hybridising: typologies in new buildings, appreciating current buildings’ diversity to encourage the creation of diverse centralities. 4. Adding: new programmes to typologies to achieve dense urban life with the non-horizontal recombination of functions. 5. Resettling: the project seeks to resettle the people concerned by the project, ensuring this way the empowerment of new interventions and the maintenance of human networks. 6. Consolidating: Accompaniment to the community during as well as after the construction of the project ensures the continuity and evolution of established actions.v 12

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3. Densifying and diversifying uses in hybrid units with housing, commerce and production

205 HOUSING UNITS

7,58m2 PUBLIC SPACE / PERSON

5850m2 USES OTHER THAN HOUSING

Axonometric view morphologic and programmatic convertion

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General floor plan desired situation, housing redensification and public space increase

Personal contribution: Concieving the facility as an organism composed of different modules or organs with specific functions that can be combined according to the community’s needs. To understand this concept, the study of the Japanese metabolist architecture was fundamental, with “Project Japan. Metabolism Talks” by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist and the analysis of Fumihiko Maki y Kazuyo Sejima’s work. - Analysing the rural territory using methodologies learnt during the “Darién, war reservoir” research. The architectural project for the Centre for Rural Integration emerges from the acknowledgment of the site’s existing conditions and from applying particular interests linked to the economic growth of rural territory.

CENTRE FOR RURAL INTEGRATION Topic: Rural development Location: Labores, Municipality of Belmira - Colombia Professors: Carlos A. Pardo, Juan M. Peláez, Clara I. Duque Team: Felipe Walter and Maria C. Trujillo Date: 2012 - 2nd Semester / Rural Facilities - UPB

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The Centre for Rural Integration of the Labores zone is located in the North of Antioquia. Historically, this territory gained importance because of its agricultural, dairy and bovine meat production. With a percentage of rural population higher than 50%, a rate of completion of secondary school lower than 20% and an average per capita income lower than 150 US dollars a month, this region faces significant challenges in the driving of its sustainable growth. 16

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Floorplan modules as organs

Longitudinal section modules oriented towards the forest

In recognition of the region’s low school attendance and of its economic potential, this project is a gathering core of activities that includes educational and productive programmes spread nowadays all over the vast territory. Through a reinterpretation of the existing typologies, the project consists in modules resembling “organs” with specific functions. Their various associations allow the building to work as an organism. 18

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Longitudinal section modules oriented towards the landscape

Cross-section auditorium and main access

Cross-section open air theater and nursery garden

Cross-section library and playsroom

As the building can evolve over time, the essential programme is built first: the library, the auditorium, the office and the bathroom. Workshops, labs, classrooms and other “organs” can be progressively built according to the community’s specific needs. In order to facilitate the equipment’s growth and to ensure a formal unity, building construction techniques that are easy to perform and materials that are easy to obtain within the region are chosen for the project. The “Centre for Rural Integration” provides a solid matrix as a basis for future growth, adaptation and modification. 20

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

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metal roofing

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natural wooden ceiling

concrete structure

masonry walls + plaster

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forest: ecological connections

modules as organs

open space as contact surface

DARIÉN, WAR RESEVOIR THE SOUTHAMERICA PROJECT (SAP) Topics: Research Location: Darien Province Professors: Miguel Mesa, Felipe Mesa, Maria José Sanín Author: Felipe Walter Date: 2012 - 2nd Semester / Rural Facilities - UPB

RESEARCH

“Darién, war reservoir” is one of the 12 chapters of the “Darién’s Atlas, a research component for the “Stepping Stones” project, which is part of the “South America Project - Hinterland Urbanisms” (SAP). The SAP is the Harvard GSD research network that proactively endorses the role of design within rapidly transforming geographies of South America. “Darién, war reservoir” focuses on understanding the armed conflict in Colombia and its symptoms through a study of its history, the territorial distribution of the actors involved, their methods of territorial control and their different funding sources. The Darién province comprises the North of the department of Chocó, the western side of the Colombian Gulf of Urabá and the Panamanian province of the Darién. Although its location defines it as a strategic point of connection between the Americas, its geographical conditions make it difficult to govern. This, along with the absence of the State, is the reason why the Darién is nowadays a place regulated by illegal armed groups which develop their illegal activities using civilians as their protective shield. 24

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ATLAS DEL DARIEN / PAN - AMERICAN HIGHWAY

TERRITORIOS MINADOS / MINED LAND

According to the illegal armed groups’ interests, the manifestations of this conflict can be classified into L ARMED GROUPS’ LEGAL ECONOMIES three categories: Las minas antipersonal “son el combati-

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to economic interests: farming industry, mining industry, Alfonso Cano, Ex-jefe mayor natural de las FARC resource extraction b. Control of strategic trafficking corridors: arms, drugs, merchandise Territorios desminados Colombia TOTAL 912.453m2 c. Demonstration as a political pressure strategy.

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Illegal economy: the persistent fight and the eradication of illegal crops in the country has forced VICTIMAS MAP + MUSE the HOMICIDIOS illegal armed groups to survive 2011 2011 97 58 thanks to less profitable “legal” economic sources, mainly with the 2005-2007: 42.229 m2 2008: 122.235 m2 mining industry.

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VICTIMAS Drug trafficking: the zone 2011:MAP 328.730 HOMICIDIOS + MUSEm2 2009 2011 comprising the Gulf of Urabá and 49 0 the Chocoan Pacific coasts is the point of communication and contact for drug-producing cartels coming from the South and those in charge VICTIMAS HOMICIDIOS MAP + MUSE of transportation, coming from the 2009 2011 49 313 North.

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pide vacaciones, no cobra sueldo.” TOTAL Victimas Presencia9.592 grupos armados ilegales

COLOMBIA - LANDMINES VICTIMS 2001-2011 188 girls Distribución de ingresos FARC 713 boys 285 women 2382 men Territorios desminados Colombia Victimas MAP+ MUSE 2001-2011 6024 soldiers Alfonso Cano, Ex-jefe mayor de las FARC BETWEEN

TOTAL 912.453m2 188 Niñas 713 Niños

285 Mujeres Narcotráfico 35% 2382 Hombres Secuestro y extorsión 30% 6024 20% Militares Minería

TOTAL 9.592 Victimas

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2010: 249.038 m2 Presencia ilegales 2011: grupos 328.730armados m2

Mujeres communications285 (45%) 2382 Hombres troop’s sustenance (28%) 6024 Militares solidarity fund (16%) health (6,28%) propaganda (4%)

Arms trafficking: the maritime frontier with Panama is considered Distribución Comunicaciones 45% FARC de ingresos Mantenimiento de tropas 28% FARC - INCOME DISTRIBUTION to be the major entry point into Fondo de solidaridad 16% Colombia for illegal weapons. Due Salud 6.28% VICTIMAS narcotrafficking (30%) HOMICIDIOS MAP + MUSE Propaganda 4% 2011 2011 port status, the to Panama’s free abduction and extorsion (30%) 97 58 mining (20%) Darién is a privileged8 mregion for 5m illegal economy (15%) Sondeador: Operador: the entry ofAuxiliar: weapons coming from Traslada implementos Demarca el lugar minado Maneja el detector Debe llevar fusil Debe llevar fusil NoColombia. lleva fusil Fuente: La minería de hecho en Defensoría del Pueblo 2010 Europe and the Middle East. - De lo que viven las FARC sin el secuestro. La Silla Vacía 2012

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Negocios como la ganadería, el cultivo de banano y palma y fundamentalmente la minería, de importante presencia en la región, atraen a los grupos armados y con ellos violencia, intimidación y control a lasTensión comunidades.

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CRECIMIENTO TENTATIVO GRUPOS ARMADOS ILEGALES / ILLEGAL ARMED GROUPS TENTATIVE GROWTH

If studying the armed conflict in the Darién province allows for the identification of the negative impact it has had at the social level as well as the environmental one, acknowledging its way of work and of mobilisation helps understand the territory to conceive a project for the Darién Gap.

RESEARCH

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The intervention of routes used by illegal groups for drug and arms trafficking can be interesting. By recognising the groups’ knowledge of the territory, the relevance of these routes as maritime, river and terrestrial transportation routes can be identified. Likewise, the identification of these groups’ highest concentration hotspots defines the necessity of government’s presence, not only military but also through economic, educational and social empowerment projects.

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indigenous territories Afro-Colombian territories

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VIOLENCIA POLITICA Y TERRORISMO / POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM

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Personal contribution: - Research the notions and relationships that exist between the formal and the informal and their influence in the city’s development. Hereto, the understanding of the contemporary city as a construction ruled by the logics of capitalism was fundamental. Books by Pier Vittorio Aureli such as “The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture” (MIT Press, 2011), “The Project of Autonomy” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) and by “The City as a Project” (Ruby Press, 2013) edited by Aureli laid the exhibition’s conceptual basis. - Shape a public programme as an integral part of the project was well as a plattaform to enable ideas’ and knowledge exchange and construction. The project’s main goal is to enrich and diversify local ideas about the political notion of the city in Medellin and abroad.

CONTEMPORARY GROUNDS: TOWARDS THE POLITICAL RECONSTRUCTON OF THE TERRITORY Topic: Exhibition + Curatorial research Location: An exhibition for the Museo de Antioquia, Medellin - COL Curators: Felipe Walter, Nydia Gutiérrez and Paula Mesa Date: exhibition opening 02.2018 / reserach and planning since 01.2016

Background: The imbalance established between the countryside and the city together with ensuing migration and demographic growth dramatically accelerated the expansion of cities since the early XXth century. As a result of this situation and following the logics of capitalism, cities gradually underwent a process of deregulation. The physical project of the city disappeared as initiative oriented to the collective and planning fell into generic regulatory frameworks profiting individual interests. The overabundance of the private realm quickly weakened the notion of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the politicâ&#x20AC;? as attempt to project forms of coexistence between individuals. Although little effort was made to change this seemingly ungovernable panorama, reflections and projects stemming from different fields have produced, in recent decades, new ways of reconstructing the contemporary territory. 32

Paris, Montparnasse. Photo by Andreas Gursky. 1993

Curatorial Concept The exhibition aims at creating a critical view of current urban conditions, while focusing on actions that, through intelligent insertions in the dynamics of late capitalism, seek the recovery of the city as a political construction oriented to the common good.

Project Row Houses. Houston /US Rick Lowe

Rebuild Foundation. Chicago/US Theaster Gates

Sacrifice. CO Clemencia Echeverri

Paris, Montparnasse. DE Andreas Gursky

Rural Studio. Auburn/US Auburn University

Center for Land Use Interpretation. US

Torre de Panela. Medellin/CO Carlos Uribe

Flooded McDonalds. DK Superflex

Elisa Silva. VE Comission

Palas por pistolas. MX Pedro Reyes

The antagonist presence of examples of critic urban environments along with propositional projects is organized in three sections of the exhibition: Transactional Territories: draw attention to clever observations of artists and planners who posit complex urban situations stand besides projects denoting a clear knowledge of real estate dynamics to propose new types of transactions aimed at the collective improvement. Livelihood Territories: recognize the existence of the urban beyond the city and highlight the interdependence that connects rural and urban lives. A number of architectural practices actually enact such linkage, while poignant works of art reveal the current unbalance between both. Democratic Territories: emphasizes the collective empowerment as civil societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tool (away from political decisions) to actively influence the construction of the city. These initiatives, however, still face opaque ethical and legal matters.

Granby Four Streets. Liverpool/UK Assemble

Schieblock. Rotterdam/NL ZUS

Rotor Deconstruction. Brussels/BE Rotor

Detroit Creative Context. Detroit/US Eduardo Rega

a estrategia del caracol. Bogotá/CO Sergio Cabrera

Transacciones. Medellin/CO Adriana Escobar

Comission. Medellin/CO Grupo Utopía

Gando Projects. Gando/BF Francis Keré

uture Farmers. San Francisco/US

Wheatfield. New York/US Agnes Denes

Laboratorio de Semillas. COL Maria Buenaventura

Comission. COL Colectivo Agroarte

Gabriel Botero. CO Commission

Copen Call - Postconflict. CO Commission

Carlos Garaicoa. CU Commission

Fredy Alzate. COL Commission

SOCCS. IN Geetah Meeta

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Use it Maps

* Invitees listed above are a preliminary selection of the curatorial team. Participation to be confirmed

Why ? In recent decades Medellin has experienced a tangible urban transformation process trough the implementation of innovative physical actions. The Museo de Antioquia, as a platform building citizenship through culture, has joined this process in the way it has fostered a critical review of the actions the city has led. Pursuing the continuity of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transformation process and seeking to integrate new ideas that nurture the its future development, the Museo de Antioquia will held an exhibition, that will reflect about the territory and draw attention on innovative urban interventions regarding the collective reconstruction of human settlements. Platforms for the exchange and incubation of ideas will be: Exhibition: locating global problems in specific environments, art pieces highlight global controversies which encourage the emergence of innovative territorial projects. Academic workshops: integrating local and international universities will take place in Medellin previous to the exhibition. Dialogues to the center: local and international, academic and professional voices will meet in Medellin to exchange and debate experiences and ideas. Biblioteca EspaĂąa. Urban Integral Project. Medellin

ADDING UP - MEDELLIN MODERN ART MUSEUMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EXTENSION Topic: Writings and publications Text: Felipe Walter Images: Cristobal Palma Magazine: Architectural Review (UK) Date: 10.2015, Pages 24 to 31 (only 24,36,27,30 and 31 shown here)

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Supported by the prosperity of the the non-hermetically sealed shoebox can hall with rooms for early musical past two decades, the construction of be opened to the plaza for public events. stimulation, a restaurant, bar and exible community spaces to promote urban Film is Colombia’s fastest growing auditoriums and multipurpose spaces. 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PHOTOGRAPHY Photos taken by Felipe Walter Correa Analogue cameras: Minolta SRT101 and Pentax K100

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1. Two cows . Marinilla 2. Sisters. Rionegro 3. Indigenous woman. Jardin 4. La America Marketplace. Medellin 3.

1. Church and town . Barichara 2. Fish pail. Cartagena 3. Desperate bird. Cartagena 4. Tableland. Guane 1.

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