Contemporary Architecture of the Periphery: A Structured Content Analysis – Case of Biblioteca España and La Casa de la Lluvia

Contemporary Architecture of the Periphery: A Structured Content Analysis – Case of Biblioteca España and La Casa de la Lluvia

Fabian Andrés Llano, Oscar Mauricio Pérez, Mireya Barón Pulido
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6701-2.ch017
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Abstract

This chapter analyzes of two types of social and cultural development in the context of peripheral regions. The projects analyze a library, Biblioteca España (2007-2015), and a cultural center, La Casa de La Lluvia (2013-present). The library was designed by El Equipo Mazzanti, a design firm, as part of the social urbanism policy framework that characterized the city of Medellin between 2004 to 2007. The cultural center was built by Arquitectura Expandida, a design collective that has been in operation since 2010 and whose headquarters is located in the city of Bogota. This analysis is unique in how it applies a sociological analysis to two architectural projects. It also seeks to demonstrate how two cultural models of habitat development that seem to be incompatible, in regard to their design and implementation, share a common goal: attain the social wellbeing of the communities living in peripheral regions.
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Theoretical Framework

A theoretical framework was chosen for this research that could break down the representations of habitat that come from approaches of traditional urbanism. The framework also uses sociology to not only understand spatial perceptions, but the direct relationship between occupied spaces and the social perception held of them. According to Llano, as a physical creation of space, the city has the quality of generating a variety of perspectives among different social groups. Its ability to do this is enhanced if the role of the city’s different aspects is factored in such as politics, communication and the power relations that arise with architecture (2014).

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