Con crecer - la arquitectura. Contradicciones de los equipamientos comunitarios en Villavicencio como espacio público: casos de estudio: la Reliquia, el Estero y Villa Lorena

Abstract

The present research aims to contribute to the multidisciplinary understanding of the city and its development from an approach capable of extracting critical perspectives on the social, political, and planning contradictions of the city and its development around facilities and/or provisions as neighborhood-scale public spaces, namely, community facilities. Additionally, it seeks to identify and generate a set of strategies as guidelines to strengthen the built environment.

This was done in order to deconstruct the vertical scheme of community facility design, handling the responsibility and/or practices of those involved in architecture differently, as well as those making city decisions from politics, involving communities in decision-making scenarios, thus avoiding the common traditionalist vision of collective identity development that reflects dominant ideologies through control or maintains ignorance about community power.

This research was carried out in the city of Villavicencio, taking into account the lack of local-scale urban acts that promote better city development, gathering case studies, institutional inclusion of participation, and the relationship of a public space with an architectural language, intending to raise awareness without severing structures that shape the city, such as the social, the political, and the architectural, avoiding, as Antonio Miranda expressed in "Public Space as Ideology, prologue" (2011): "Divide to conquer, which are the precautions of control."