space is our raw material, but it is always conjugated with the human beings; and if they fall into the void of oblivion, we must appeal to our raw material to save them, even if it means the construction of the no-space, spatializing the emptiness.
as a socio-political tool, architecture allows the insertion of our ideas and concepts for a ignored group of people.
architecture must lead to the re-construction of the industry and production with the re-strengthening of the education to enhance the socio-economical forces to prevent culture to fall.
the acceptance of cultural, physical, psychological and emotional elements of the people as the essence of the personal development, but mostly for the collective growth.
in the beginning of the XXI Century, 70% of the world’s population lives in urban zones. The city becomes the center of the global economy, from where the knowledge and the information is diffused, which are the two fields that define today's society. The cities resemble each other regardless of the culture of the countries where they are located, due to their promotion of an identical way of life dominated by money, haste, and the extreme proximity with a greater social distance. Cities are increasing their percentage of migration of people from rural areas due to the effect of globalization of the economy and culture that the contemporary cities are suffering. The cities are becoming urban magnets.
rural to urban migration is becoming one of the critical issues that all cities in developed and developing countries around the world are facing nowadays. Social, economical, cultural, psychological and political reasons surround this emergent effect of the new urban squatters. The actual data and the predicted figures of this situation are incredibly alarming and it seems to be uncontrollable and incalculable. The existing megalopolises are proliferating even more and the actual cities are becoming new megalopolises; all of them are changing, evolving, growing and developing with urban and architectural interventions that are few or absent to give real solutions. Extremities are more accented and solutions are even scarcer.
the disorganization, uncleanliness, hazard ambient (body/mind/soul), and the lack of vital services in slums have created virtual and physical walls to separate them from the city. But, these complex urban collages are valued due to its efficiency as a community settlement that promotes social organization, land valuation and the best use of available resources. Spite of its stereotyped disadvantages, the principal problem is the lack of communication and interaction between the local governments and the slums, due to the drastic division between them, which could led to long-term solutions for the benefit of all the people.
the proposal is to face this always-avoided paradigm of the contemporary society with urban and architectural systems that would be able to delicately and elegantly merge inside the existing structures of the slums inserting new social, economical, cultural and political patterns which would attract, encourage and provoke the immersion of the existing urban city (people/systems/power). The idea is to make a significant shift in the mind (way of thinking/reacting/living) of the people, from locals to the outsiders, delineating concepts and bringing ideological trends.
the absence of physical space in the slums, due to the densification and the geographical situation of these settlements, is evident. The only left-over spaces are the vertical ones from the steep slopes and hill sides. People cannot use these virtual spaces. The application of contemporary parametric digital techniques and technologies will led to the creation of this new system/ tissue/web/swarm that will become part of the slums to improve their way of living for their growth and development. Spatializing the emptiness.
