Plaza de mercado los siete colores, San Andrés Islas.

Abstract

The history and trade of the Department of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina mark territorial guidelines determining its current status, San Andrés islands has an economic development supported by the strategic geographical location, managing to adapt commercial and tourist exchanges, these factors allow visual and superficial progress that has managed to overshadow the needs and traditions of the population, being a department affected by poverty and unemployment. The complexity of the problems and needs within the territory is understood, proposing culture as a dynamic of change and economic restructuring to a population and territory separated by national disinterest. Through architecture, the implementation of dynamics of integration and correlation with local activities is proposed, allowing the commercial development of these activities, adapting strategies that benefit cultural and environmental appropriation. The understanding of the original mechanics and styles of the Raizal Ethnic Group, manages to link an architecture that complies with cultural nuances and manages to structure an innovative proposal, which emerges as the new image of San Andrés, determining spaces of integration, cultural development, landscaping, environmental appropriation and commercial dynamics implemented on the island, justified by the structuring elements of the project such as materials, connectivity and the direct relationship with the water system.