Living Together - Strategy / Gustavo Peñaloza

17th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale Di Venezia

LIVING TOGETHER GUSTAVO PEÑALOZA

17th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale Di Venezia

LIVING TOGETHER Gustavo PeĂąaloza, 2020

acknowledgments

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Diana García for believing in this project.

I also thank the collaborator’s team for sharing the same passion and conviction to achieve this project, and to all advisors, without whom this project would not be possible.

Living together

Gustavo Peñaloza Díaz architecture student Msc Urb. Diana García instructor

Living together is an extract from the curatorial theme of the 17th Architecture Biennale: How will we live together? which was the basis of the concept for this project.

We wish to express our gratitude to all the people in Zaragoza Avenue who shared their time and let us dream together.

collaborators

advisors

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Printed in México, 2019

midterm critic

Alberto Dorantes Sánchez biotechnology student Lic. Benjamín Cardoso Castillo psychologist Arq. Daniela Velasco architect Edson Vargas food chemistry student Arq. Jonatan García Cervantes architect Lic. Raquelle Berenice Sánchez industrial designer Adán Sánchez García bachelors degree in political science Arq. Ana López-Ortego Arquitectura Experimental (AXP) Msc. Juan Ramón Santillana Arbesu master in ethics for social construction Kevin Smid brand identity designer & strategist Mauricio Mandujano Manriquez undergraduate student in international relations Doc. Stefania Biondi urbanist Arq. María Padilla Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)

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Living together

To design in architecture that which has only been dreamed by people.

Likely, this will mean fundamentally think on methods of approaching, listening and decoding. In doing so, we will surely discover a new way of living together.

The relations with space through experience and imagination. The liberating process of ideation extending forever, conceiving a world full of possibilities, metaphors, and utopias.

Design becomes a tool for cohesion and creation. This is because people, in the process, know each other and share the understanding that others are doing the same.

Today, however, we can no longer work together easily. Anger and frustration have increased considerably against governments, planners and any power figure in the administrative part of city building. So much so, that it has even affected the construction of social relationships. Besides, we have forgotten the natural environment and, in return, our survival is threatened. As the boundary between us, people and other species, has become increasingly ambiguous, a new way of understanding is forming.

Urban planning as a great master plan transformation is not suitable for this new crisis. Isn’t it problematic to simply define it as an ideal artificial model from a limited perception?

From such a narrow point of view, it is impossible to solve any of the widespread problems we face as a society.

See architecture not as an external intervention but as a new environment that emerges organically from living together. Instead of designing spaces

for people, we must foster an awareness of contemporary problems that incorporates all aspects of our environment.

There are many differences between conventional architecture, such as unilateral work, and the different actors involved in the daily construction of the city. Different paths and methods, different points of view, and different actions. While there are differences of all kinds, the most fundamental difference of them all is empathy.

The world of people, the world of birds and animals, the digital world, the world of trees and plants, the built world. They constitute a large number of relationships and systems, each different. What makes their differences powerful is the empathy that comes from knowing diversity.

Empathy gives a perspective to things, creates connections and groups, and makes each world relate to others. The fundamental concept behind all organizations and all collective actions is empathy.

Until now, the natural environment has been struggling to maintain its relationships on which it depends while we forget them.

Can we somehow bring as many of these relationships to architecture as possible that come from empathy?

Perhaps we can bring as many stories as possible to architecture by making dreams of all kinds as tangible as possible. Or else, if architecture itself can remain utopia, we can share a message of hope to continue the struggle for our survival.

This is living together; the new use of architecture.

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The Zaragoza Avenue is a 2.20 km long corridor located in the city of QuerĂŠtaro, MĂŠxico. It serves as an edge south of downtown and connects the city from east to west. Its origins date back to the colonial vision of a city where the border between development and natural landscape contrasted.

With the constant growth of the city, the edge becomes a main avenue that affects the social dynamics of the area. Traditional neighborhoods are divided and new public areas emerge among the urban built environment.

At present, Zaragoza is one of the most important avenues in the city where the historical and contemporary meet a mixture of uses, people, species and environments.

The corridor is currently in dispute between the government, developers and citizens. There is a need to transform public transport due to rapid population growth. As part of this effort, the social groups that live Zaragoza every day are separating.

Instead of living together, the tendency is to divide and eliminate the possibility of collaborating.

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Imagine all kinds of individuals designing

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All kinds of groups imagining a future

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Designing new things

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All kinds of environments

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All kinds of values

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Knowing the corridor, learning from different places, empathizing with so many people, all in an instant The digital space makes it possible

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When it comes to all the things that make up the corridor, the innumerable perceptions, and the needs of the corridor, it is necessary to interpret the architecture freely

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Freely as in dreams, designing our own utopias.

The kind of utopias that allows us to build hope, allow us to fight crisis and move forward.

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