MEDELLÍN URBAN DESIGN - PROVIDING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

MEDELLÍN URBAN DESIGN STUDIO

PROVIDING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

JOTA SAMPER, CATALINA ORTIZ, MANUEL ORTEGA, LORENA BELLO

Carolina Álvarez - Andrés Felipe Barreto - Diana X Bell - Edward Betancur - Andrea Cano - Joshua Eager - Luis Alberto Enríquez - Mabel Garcia - Mariluz González - Johan Gómez - Katheryn Gutiérrez - Valeria Henao - Katherine Hincapié - Jennifer Hiser - Adriana Imitola - Alice Kao -Javier Leal Navarro Gloria- Londoño - Daniela - Lopez - Julian Molina - Julián Monsalve - Juanita Montes - Alejandra Morales -- Mayank Ojha - Henry Aldemar Portilla - Lindiwe Rennert - Arianna Salazar - Juan Pablo Salazar - Sara Serna - Natalia Soto - Quiying Sun - Angela Daniela Toro - Sergio quintero - Jin You

WHAT IF INFRASTRUCTURAL INTERVENTIONS

COULD ARRIVE EARLIER?

This book is the product of an international collaboration

between Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s

School of Architecture + Planning, Universidad Nacional

de Colombia sede Medellín’s Architecture Department

and School of Planning, and Manantiales de Paz.

The goal of this project is to envision, plan, and design

prototypical criteria and design alternatives as relevant

proposals for decision-makers in the community. The

project also aims to make institutions and other stakeholders

aware of various alternatives for the growth of

informal settlements in Manantiales de Paz.

Browse or download the book HERE

CITATION

Samper, Jota, Catalina Ortiz, Ortega Manuel, and Bello Lorena. 2025. Medellín Urban Design - Providing Infrastructure for Informal Settlements. 1st ed. Vol. 1. Medellin, Colombia: Informal Settlements Research. https://heyzine.com/flip-book/0e9c732e1c.html.    

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This project was made possible thanks to a grant from the Center for

Advanced Urbanism. 

We are grateful to Antonio Murillo, Claudia Milena Zuluaga, Belinda,

Eunice Gomez, Lizardo Correa and the rest of the Neighborhood Board

(Mesa de Trabajo) of Manantiales de Paz for joining us throughout the

process and their feedback.

To Eran Ben Joseph, Director of the Department of Urban Planning, MIT;

and MIT DUSP Practicum Committee for their support for the workshop;

To Edgar Arroyo Castro, Dean of the School of Architecture, UNAL; Edgar

Meneces, Dean of the Department of Architecture, UNAL; Pedro Torres,

Director Area Curricular in Architecture and Urbanism, UNAL; To Ryan

Catalani and Valeria Henao for graphic design, Carlos Andres Escobar

Gutierrez for support in providing information. Alejandro Echeverri and his

team at Urbam, Camilo Restrepo, Felipe Uribe for their presentations on

site in Medellin.

To the impressive number and quality of critics that join us during the

process (in order of review) Celina Balderas,Luis Callejas , Moa Carlsson,

Fadi Masoud, Kobi Ruthenberg, Brent D. Ryan, Ricardo Alvarez, Adriana

Chavez , Carlos Puerta, Veronica Ortiz, Kian Goh, Nikos Katsikis , Roi

Salgueiro, Eran Ben-Joseph, Alan Berger, Robert Cowherd, Rania Ghosn,

Miho Mazereeuw, Sarah Williams, Joan Busquets, Andres Bernal, Jill

Desimini, Jane HuttonMiloon Kothari,Silvia Bendito, Anita Berrizbeitia,

Rosetta Elkin, Dennis Frenchman, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro,, Edward Mitchel,

Luis Valenzuela, Brent D. Ryan, Meejin Yoon.

To Ryan Catalani and Valeria Henao for the editing of this book