Centro cultural y espiritual indígena para una etnia Nasa en Villagarzón, Putumayo

Abstract

In Colombian history, indigenous peoples have suffered multiple violations such as loss of their territory, forced displacement, disappearance and death of their members, among others, caused by violence, poor land distribution, colonization and economy. Factors that have generated that in one way or another the ethnic groups are in danger of losing their identity and with it their architecture, which we will emphasize in this project, with the intention of preserving their culture and knowledge, through architecture, using it as a means of transferring traditional concepts and beliefs (Duque, 2004). Taking into account the indigenous people as a group of great cultural importance, which is so vulnerable in different aspects, the intention of the project is to identify the representative architectural elements of the ethnic groups of Putumayo, and integrate them with some contemporary concepts, in such a way to propose a fusion of spatial and architectural knowledge between two cultures; and thus contribute to the preservation of the indigenous culture through architecture, in this case, with an element as representative as the indigenous Maloca, which can be reinterpreted as a Cultural and Spiritual Center, with respect and inclusion of the traditional concepts of the community, but proposing another spatiality, and other construction techniques that guarantee in turn, its permanence and inclusion within the cultural and architectural history of Colombia.