MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA Medellín: Environmental Urbanism, Society, Education, and Culture

This exhibition explains Medellín’s urban planning process from its natural components as strategies for the sustainable occupation of the territory. The aim is to highlight the natural structure of the city as a fundamental concept for urban planning that re-densifies the natural components in its hydrographic basins and articulates them with the public space to qualify it in spatial and environmental terms, and generate new places for citizen gatherings.
For the exhibition, we propose the construction of a 170 cm x 300 cm topographical model, on which images of four historical moments of the city are projected: (1) Natural structure; (2) First occupations of the territory and first expansion processes; (3) Disappearance of the natural structure of the hydrographic basins and their natural components due to the construction of the city and its unplanned expansions; and (4) Current territorial planning based on its natural components: watersheds, topography and natural landscape, as instruments to articulate the structural natural components of the city with the existing public space and for the generation of new public spaces in the existing urban structure.
On one of the walls, another video projection will show the current urban and landscape interventions in the city, with the increase of public space and its environmental qualification.