Tejiendo memoria: espacio para la representación simbólica de la memoria en la comuna 13

Abstract

The commune 13 has been the epicenter of multiple urban conflicts over the years, which has caused not only the material loss; but also, the loss of loved ones and the quality of life of its inhabitants, producing a social degeneration of the sector. In recent times, the commune became the starting point for changes in Medellín, becoming the experimental place of urban and architectural treatments, as if it were a way of giving life back to this place by implementing different projects that help meet the needs of the community; and at the same time, of innovative urbanistic treatments which try to improve the connectivity and quality of life of its inhabitants adapting to the particular conditions that the commune presents. It is here that this type of improvement also begins a process of resilience, not only physically but also at the social level, where the inhabitants of the sector come to light for what they are as a community and where social improvement almost becomes a paradigm of the commune, it is about erasing the stigmas of the commune and a path is initiated to make known an own identity. Therefore, as part of the improvement process, an architectural piece is proposed that will help complement the sector’s equipment circuit and function as a vault of the memory of the place. Since, it is all this that has resulted in the way of life and thinking of the population that today lives in the commune. This piece does not seek or intend to solve all problems immediately, but to be part of this long journey, in which a symbolic recovery is sought and also represent a past, but above all being a protagonist in the formation of a future for the commune.