Strategies for the Arrangement of Collective Space in High-Rise Buildings, Bogota - Medellin (1960-1970)

Abstract

This article discusses design strategies for the distribution of collective space in high-rise buildings between 1960 and 1970, based on the study of projects submitted to five contests published in the PROA and Escala magazines. The description of distribution strategies is used to make a taxonomic proposal that brings the design of the period closer to Team X's reflections on the transformation of architecture to accommodate forms of association at an urban scale. Through the internalization of the public program in the first levels of the volume, the analysis deducts how the local paradigm of platform tower-type buildings was left behind in the search for a renewed relationship with the traditional layout and the appropriation of its public space of streets and squares.