Etno aldea Emberá Las Honduras: dignificando las raíces ancestrales

Abstract

This degree project arises as a response to the recovery of a territory hit by the armed conflict that has lasted for decades in the country, which has left victims of violence, forced displacement, loss of ancestral culture, national and international invisibility, and low levels of quality of life; generating a large number of vulnerable populations, which urges them, the application of architectural designs with project strategies, which contribute not only to the reparation of the victims, but to a claim of a territory; which is located in the department of Caquetá, more exactly located in the municipality of Florencia, which through a field visit was able to capture the necessary information, which shows the importance and relevance of a housing design for a community. that not only needs cultural preservation, that can be shared and generate visibility in society. In this way, the route that the project will take is evident, which is based on the idea of ​​reinvention, adaptation, and construction of a new way of life that contains and strengthens cultural identity, but that in turn sustains it over time. . Therefore, the realization of a housing project is concluded, which supports to potentiate the activities that they carry out as an ethnic community; such as livestock, agriculture and handicraft work. Through storage spaces, spatial flexibility, adaptation on the ground, locally abstracted materiality and the integration of ancestral symbols, which allows them to connect with the union as a community. Thus achieving a home where each indigenous family manages to adapt their space, according to their needs.