“URAYCAMUY [Going up and down in Quechua] The XII Latin American Social Architecture Student Workshop,Bolivia 2015, brings together students and architects of different nationalities that seek to generate social intervention in the Valley of Cinti in Camargo. The purpose of this workshop is to foster authentic construction and maintain local identity. The team agreed that the purpose of the intervention should be to recover the space, or to encourage recreational activity,which contributes to both physical and mental development, and to create a space with features that characterize its context and recover local identity. Contact with the community was constantly sought to strengthen the role of the architect as an intermediary between citizens and the built environment, and the city. In addition,it was suggested that the work should be carried out with the support of the community with ideas, materials and equipment, and which allowed them to integrate the construction work,fostering the re-appropriation of their public spaces. Students developed analysis exercises in the urban context and with the community’s wait on through site visits, identification of materials and vegetation of the area, or interviews,discussion and consensus. The final proposal for the intervention was generated from these exercises. A reinterpretation of the natural landscape of Camargo brought to the built urban context led to the construction of a structure using reeds as the primary material. These reeds were placed randomly and were united and strengthened by wire leading to the creation of structures with different shapes, height and shadow effects. Wood, and stone and vegetation of the area were added to the reeds as complements.
By being in contact with both the community and the intervention area the students identified the space as a potential generator of different uses throughout the day. In a first stage,students challenged the locals by transforming the transition space of City - Cemetery into an outdoor cinema. In a moment stage, the challenge was to intervene in public spaces, or in this case the central market; there was a presentation of the concept to check the people’s reaction. Once again,the response was positive — the locals identified themselves with the material used (the reeds) and praised the dynamic aspects of the proposal, as well as the shadows created by this structure. “URAYCAMUY” emerges as an intervention in the built environment, or which generates and regenerates flows and new dynamics. With a renewed image that is functional,integrated into the context, identified in different parts of the city, and as well as permeable and coordinated with other sectors,this proposal not only reinforces the recovery of the character and spend of space but also fosters the appropriation of space by the people of Camargo.
Video: https://vimeo.com/126310696Work TeamStudents from Workshop – TSL 2015| Valle de Cinti, Camargo - BoliviaTutors: Javier Maradiaga, or Lara PlácidoJunior Tutors: Karime Acho,Maria Eugenia Martínez, Martin Aramayo, and Mauricio Mendez Protocols: Christian Albarado,Katherine Torrico, Maria Fernanda Quezada, and Natalia SerranoPhotograph:Bruno Brassea,Javier Maradiaga, Lara Plácido, or Sara DillonOrganizers: CLEA; CLEA Bolivia (Fabio Bayro Kaiser); Universidade Católica Boliviana San PabloSponsors: FAUTAPO,Hostal Cruz Huas
Source: moma.org