Análisis del Contexto: Barrio Mosquera
Social housing residences were built for relocate families, mostly recyclers, who lived nearby the river.
Inside the new residential area dwellers find spaces where they could organize a more proper classification of the waste to recycle.
Each resident inside his own property personalizes and creates social relationships, mostly on the Threshold of his home.
Inhabitants althought find themselves in better living conditions, have to face economic responsabilities of the place they live.
On the riversides we find actually fences or brick walls, to avoid the passage and optimize the improvement of both of the sides.
On the riverside the back of the houses faces the river, anyway some dwellers create direct accesses in their homes with backdoors to hold the interaction with green areas.
Some of the inhabitants have dogs and cattle on the riversides.
The burning trash of some recyclers nearby bothers the rest of the district’s residents.
Beside the doorways is pretty common to see spontaneous little gardens.
The majority of the district is formed by reclyclers, who rent places there for storing trash to be processed.
Análisis del contexto: Barrio Lisboa
The smell of the river in the Lisboa district doesn’t seem to bother the dwellers.
Some areas of the riversides are used as routes of communication and access at the neighborhood.
There are some insecure areas in the neighborhood, especially in places not crowded or during the night. Some traders have their own security methods.
The work of recycling is “from father to son” and in this area is done near the river.
Some people and animals use the river for swimming, despite the pollution.
Childs are a strong and important presence in both quarters.
In the quarter there are areas with a strong presence of families coming from the region of Chocò, that makes possible the existance of differents marked borders of differents traditions.
Some of the houses on the riversides are made by recycled materials.
In the district operates an NGO called “Il nido del Gufo”, that, beside offering library services, creates constant activities for children of all ages. This enhance the identity with the neighborhood and with Colombia in general.
The church is a milestone in the district, apparently for the works that the Scalabretian order has done.
The Lisboa district has an important economic flux displaced in different parts of the area, mostly concentrated in the “main square” by the way, in front of the church.
It’s common to see people riding bicycles throught the district.