Ramírez, un barrio que surge de los escombros. De la marginalidad del reciclaje a la autosustentabilidad de un barrio contenido por sus bordes. Propuesta urbana para el mejoramiento integral y articulación del Barrio Ramírez con su entorno y la ciudad a través de la identidad de una comunidad recicladora de residuos en el centro oriente de Bogotá D.C

Abstract

Informality in the habitat of Latin American cities has been characterized as a means for their growth and the provision of housing for different segments of society, many of which lack sufficient economic resources to have access to a roof over their heads and to meet their basic needs. Bogotá D.C. does not escape these conditions and, in its peripheries, different informal settlements have been founded, which over time have been incorporated into the urban structures through settlement, legalization or neighborhood improvement processes, among others. The Ramírez neighborhood is an informal and marginal settlement, located in the eastern center of the city and self-contained by popular neighborhoods, some of informal origin, presenting a duality that is not only physical and spatial but also social, cultural and environmental. This neighborhood has been self-built by a group of families of waste recyclers, often thrown away by the city, integrating their knowledge and materials of daily sustenance for the configuration of their community and habitat, the above, with an evident deficit of urban quality of life and conditions that intensify a process of social segregation and self-marginalization of a population of great importance for the city, which both in the past and at present, has been contributing its different social dynamics for the improvement of the same. This project formulates a reinterpretation of the processes of integral neighborhood improvement applied to this specific sector, with the purpose of articulating the physical, environmental and socio-cultural space of this community with the rest of the city and without losing the identity values and the technical and artisanal knowledge of its inhabitants and their daily activities.