Casa de oro: Vivienda productiva orfebre

Abstract

The municipality of Buriticá presents a great variety of social conflicts whose main causes are the lack of sufficient consultation and participation of the community in decisions related to mining exploitation, the lack of precise information on the effects of mining activities, the diverging expectations of social and economic benefits that the different actors of the mining process have, the manifest concerns about the environment, the disputes over the use of land and its economic compensation, the migration that has been the object of the municipality and the discrepancies in the acceptance of large-scale mining (exercised in this case by the Canada-Continental Gold Company.) At present, there is no housing project in Colombia that adequately integrates the mining worker. It is important for the municipality of Buriticá to design a collective accommodation device that guarantees adequate spaces for the daily life of the miner and his family and also provides the possibility of using the natural scenario as a balance mechanism of the inner being. CASA DE ORO was born as the answer to these housing conflicts and becomes a housing system that affects life and territory as a transformer from the inclusion of its inhabitants to the natural dynamics of the territory, that is: the individual in balance with nature