In Progress..

a farmer’s collective

Individual, M.Arch Thesis

Semester: Fall 2022, Spring 2023

Location: Boyaca, Colombia

Advisors: Maria Alvarez Garcia & Walter Hood

Software: Sketching, Adobe Illustrator, Procreate, Rhino, ArcGIS

The thesis aims to embrace the sub-region’s ethniccultural formation, history, customs, traditions, daily uses, beliefs and its folklore, to retain current and new population by developing a cooperative housing that gives agency to the farmer. A structure that can combine the land of multiple families and adapt to the ecological needs of its context to re-activate production, economy, community, and overall quality of life. By creating a productive community that focuses on the collective rather than the individual, there is the potential to transform the landscape of these farmlands in a positive way. One that can connect farmers to nature and vice versa, and one that can adapt to the conditions of individual families, and provide a level of ownership to the farmer that activates the agency over their future.