There’s something imaginatively attractive about abandoned parks, streets, and buildings. Void of life, they still exist, quietly telling us of an opportunity to design better. But for the people – those that were suppose to use the community park with no streetlights, or the narrow alleyways leading to dead-ends, or live and work in the [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Economics: Turning problems into opportunities
When speaking about economics the majority of the people that are not economist think in terms of money, but even though it has to do with finance it is much more than speaking about expenses and revenues; it is about designing in a way that we can deliver additional value. In countries with strong economies, architecture can be driven to be more eccentric, big buildings, and parametric shapes; which [...]
Communism and Sustainability
Cable Car Bogotá, Ciudad Bolivar
Abstract The draft study to the next document is a transportation project implemented by the Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, in the area of Ciudad Bolivar, one of the most overlooked and higher infrastructure problems, social, accessibility sectors, public space etc. The project is an Aerial Cable, which could benefit thousands [...]
