Forma urbana y tipología arquitectónica en el hábitat popular de Villavicencio (Meta): un estudio de casos.

Abstract

The recent urban history of Villavicencio is not fully systematized. In that sense, this work continues the efforts of the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Santo Tomás Seccional Villavicencio to provide knowledge in this regard. To do this, we start from the background presented by Farrés et al (2021 and 2022), which provides, among other issues, a multi-temporal analysis of the formation of the city from the second third of the 20th century to the present. In that sense, the present degree work investigates the characteristics of the urban form and the architectural typologies implemented in the construction of the formal popular habitat corresponding to said period. The degree work is an interpretive, empirical and mixed type of research (in terms of information processing), based on the analysis of the plans of urbanizations found in the Municipal Archive of Villavicencio. This search involved a constant process of comparison, classification, identification and assessment of the attributes of the urban form of said neighborhoods (urb. El porvenir, conjunto residencial amaral, urb. La campiña, urb. Teusaca, urb. El delirio, urb. El jordan, urb. Madrigal, conjunto residencial el nogal, urb. Rosa blanca, urb. El bambu, urb. Cantarrana iv, urb. Manaure, urb. Antonio villavicencio, urb. Brisas del caney ii, urb. El morichal, urb. Villa adriana, urb. El palmar, urb. Rosa blanca oriental, urb. Villas del palmar, urb. Canaima, urb. Doña luz, urb. Bochica ii, urb. Copecal), as well as the architectural typologies implemented in them, and their changes. This process was divided into two phases. In the first part, an inventory of urbanizations was created according to a historical periodization previously established in Farrés et al (2022), and then, the urban form of an intentionally chosen sample was delved into. In the second phase, the most predominant architectural typologies in each of the previously chosen urbanizations were characterized, and the volumetric and use changes to which they have been subjected were identified. In general terms, a tendency was demonstrated to build urbanizations with less public space directly related to homes (that is, less sidewalk and green space on the platform); and on the other hand, a profound transformation of the typologies that lead to densification and deterioration of the original urban form.