Bolonia's Multidimensional Habitation Social Housing by Sergio Mutis

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DESIGN DETAILS
DESIGN NAME:
Bolonia's Multidimensional Habitation

PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Social Housing

INSPIRATION:
Seeking to provide solutions to the numerous, convoluted, and wide-ranging deficiencies common on social housing programs, HAMBO developed a theoretical reassessment of Complexity Theory applied to the concept of habitat: multidimensional habitat. Nonetheless, the greatest inspiration for the project were the local communities who collaborated on its development during the 3-year-long participative research study. HAMBO is wholeheartedly dedicated to them and their inspiring friendship.

UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
HAMBO differentiates completely from conventional social housing in Colombia, which has been proven both aesthetically and functionally deficient, in a plethora of aspects driven by its unique multidimensional approach. Among them, its participatory design and community-emergent aesthetics stand-out. By reinterpreting the visual and constructive patterns of the local neighborhoods, and making the community a fundamental part of the design process, the project achieves to maintain its heterogeneous and captivating spatiality and identity in a radically novel and appealing architectural space.

OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION:
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PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION:
Action Participatory Research: March 2016 - January 2019 Project Completion: March 2019 Colombian Society of Architects Thesis Award: November 2019 Architecture MasterPrize Award: October 2020 Paris Design Awards GrandPrix: July 2021

FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY:
Architecture, Building and Structure Design

PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY:
HAMBO utilizes 2 main technological systems. The first is the Habitable Beam System composed of modular concrete frames and Vierendeel steel bridges. The second is an Adaptable Wall System composed of affordable, lightweight, recycled, and easily-reassembled material modules. Both systems are combined to achieve economic viability, structural security, and the dynamic spatiality characteristic of popular settlements, in parallel, contributing to the sustainability and flexibility of the project.

SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES:
Inhabitants: ~344 Cooperatives: 8 Gross Area: 8837m2 Construction Rate: 1.07 Constructed Area: 9252m2 Occupancy Rate: 39,3% Academic Reach: Undergraduate thesis project and detailed characterization of local habitational deficit. On-Site Reach: Subsidy-application plans for 63 vulnerable families, 5 self-manageable regional social programs, and participative construction of local urban supports. Additional Objective: To raise awareness of the potential of multidimensional design for social justice.

TAGS:
Social Housing, Participative Design, Architectural Flexibility, Collective Management, Urban Farming, Green Architecture, Social Architecture, Modular Architecture, Parametric Architecture, Social Justice

RESEARCH ABSTRACT:
HAMBO employed a 3-year-long action participatory research, which had the aim of grasping the site-specific situation of the vulnerable communities of Bolonia in marginal Bogotá and collaboratively devising potential solutions. Featuring 8 research tools and embracing the active collaboration of 152 diverse local inhabitants, the research revealed numerous correlated habitational deficiencies and produced 5 self-manageable programs, currently under execution, to promote wellbeing in the region.

CHALLENGE:
The paramount design challenge was to develop a project that consistently and coherently responded to the complexity of the problem: a convoluted and intra-influencing embroil of habitational deficiencies including economic limitations, household overcrowding, limited access to public services, lack of urban supports, low household incomes, precarious structural conditions, and an indifferent and short-sighted social-housing policy, among others.

ADDED DATE:
2021-09-07 23:46:29

TEAM MEMBERS (3) :
"Designer": Sergio Mutis, Faculty Supervisor: Hernando Carvajalino and Local Co-Designers & Collaborators: The Bolonia Community, Ofelia Uribe School, Prosofi ONG.

IMAGE CREDITS:
Sergio Mutis, 2021.



CLIENT/STUDIO/BRAND DETAILS
NAME:
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

PROFILE:
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana is a private higher education institution founded in 1623. It is one of the oldest and prestigious Colombian universities. Its main campus is located in Bogotá, Colombia and its branch campus is located in Cali, Colombia.



NOMINATION DETAILS

Bolonia's Multidimensional Habitation Social Housing by Sergio Mutis is a Nominee in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category.

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AWARD DETAILS

Bolonia's Multidimensional Habitation Social Housing by Sergio Mutis is Runner-up for A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2021 - 2022.



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