La vivienda en bucaramanga (1948 - 1962): una crítica a la modernidad en colombia
- Autores: Samuel Jaimes Botía
- Directores de la Tesis: Manel Guàrdia Bassols (dir. tes.), Jorge Ramírez Nieto (codir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2021
- Idioma: español
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- Resumen
The housing market designed in Bucaramanga during the study period of the fifties not only shows the transfer of technical knowledge through international cooperation, but also, the capitalist frenzy for the consumption of technology as a form of ideological containment, demonstrates the enthusiasm of entrepreneurs and industrialist through innovation and the development of new techniques and materials that express a new modernized lifestyle.
Formal experimentalism in search of this “lifestyle” by local architects was more linked to the inter-institutional “corporate link” of particular interests in the exploration and yields of the construction of residential projects together with bureaucratic planning and foreign financing that was in search of accessibility of housing to the lower classes of workers and peasants which migrated to the city to reduce a real deficit, particularly the spatial changes of housing, in e.g... kitchens, sewing rooms, libraries, courtyards, interior gardens and exterior gardens, roads and urban public spaces, which gave distinction and exclusivity expressing the “social ascent” of the middle classes and the “progress” of an emerging business, industrial and commercial society of Bucaramanga residents.
This ideological modernization of “great expectations of progress” is synthesized in the urban actions of Bucaramanga, the houses made in the foothills of the Sotomayor neighborhoods (Bolarquí); El Prado and Cabecera del Llano, for the emerging business, industrial and commercial society, the houses made in the small plateaus of the southern periphery in the neighborhoods of La Victoria, La Salle and Conucos for the working classes, and those made by self-construction in the archipelagos of the northern periphery and the western escarpment of the Arenales neighborhoods like, Kennedy , Las Olas, La Joya and Campo Hermoso of workers in order to contain the communist advance and moderately cover the housing deficit in Bucaramanga.
The purpose of this thesis is a critical reflection of the inter-institutional cooperation and interests that determined the urban and architectural development of the Bucaramanga plateau, an academic contribution to the modernization of the city, that managed to recover the scattered and little valued information in missing files in order to take advantage of its knowledge in the reconstruction and to develop the ideas from the evidences found all though a deceptive but indispensable form of work for the understanding of today's metropolitan area of a contemporary city. Precisely, because this is it, the case of an intermediate city such as Bucaramanga, its contribution to possible comparative approximations is undeniable, it offers multiple references at the Latin American level, especially to OEA member states.
