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BOGOTÁ: MY IDEAL CITY
A BOTTOM-UP PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN
GROWING MIDDLE CLASS
Bogotá’s population increases by almost 6% each year, with the highest
growing middle class in the Americas. This new group of Citizens has
new demands and expectations; 75% live in the city! Downtown Bogota
is in dire need of an urban upgrade to support this growth. But history
shows traditional governmental masterplans collapse under corruption
and the short term presidents have.
BOTTOM UP
To bypass this broken system and respond directly to the needs of
the Bogotá citizens, the client asked Archi-Tectonics to develop a
Bottom Up Urban Plan. Together with PSFK, an english trend research
company, a website “My Ideal City” was developed with 2500 questions
for the people in Bogota. The client also arranged airtime on the radio
and the people from Bogota started answering our questions for their
“dream” city. We analyzed the outcomes and came up with 5 preferred
strategies.
RESEARCH
Analyzing the crowd information, assisted us in analyzing the pressure
points for Downtown Bogota that lacks inhabitants [only 130,000 people
lived there] and derived its intrinsic qualities to introduce high precision
“acu-puncture” strategies. Our Bottom-up model created 6 strategies
that were all tested for feedback loops generating a multiplicity of
optimizations. These introduced not only architectures, but also cultural,
economical, ecological, and social growth, rebuilding the city from the
inside out, this time with the people of Bogota.
Location
Downtown Bogotá, Colombia
Project Type
Bottom Up Urbanism, Crowd Funding
Clients
Prodigy Network, BD Promotores
Consultants
Gary Hack (Urban Planning)
PSFK (Trend Research)
Rodrigo Nino, Prodigy Network (Crowd Funding)
Featured
Solo Exhibit & Conference Aedas, Berlin (2014)
TED Global - Talk (2017)
UIUC Chicago (2019)
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