Proyecto Truchicola Mapanga: Planta de Procesamiento de Trucha y Complejo Turístico de la Comunidad Amoyá

Abstract

The Truchicola Mapanga Project is a direct request from the Amoyá Virginia indigenous community and the indigenous government to the Faculty of Architecture of La Gran Colombia University. In this project, the culture of the Pijao community was adopted as the main design pillar, implementing their cultural dynamics, cosmogony, and architectural identity through materialities, forms, and functions. The articulation of the project with the community is generated through a boulevard that generates a direct connection and visualization to the stream since water is conceived as the main element in the cosmogony of the Pijao people. As a first part, a tourist complex is designed that responds to the sense of community with the development of activities in a concentric way, this is complemented by social areas such as restaurants, administrative areas, and technical strip; functional and sustainable strategies are generated. Secondly, there is a functional, optima,l and efficient design of a trout processing plant with a pond area, water catchment from the project's perimeter stream, specific development of the plant's sub-areas (production line with stations delimited in the design), and complementary areas (technical rooms, restaurants). The project contributes to the understanding of the culture and its dynamics through their experience of them and allows the articulation of the community with the industrial development of the sector, harmonizing the technical and regulatory aspects with the cultural concepts of the people.