BUENAVENTURA revival: Maritime Terminal for Passengers: INTERWEAVING THE WAVES

Buenaventura is a port-city located in the Colombian pacific coast: having a geostrategic position, equidistant to the main worldwide markets; moving 60% of the cargo country; being the most important Colombian port. Considered as an eco-region with many biodiversity, it attracts many tourists. Nevertheless, having all these geographical and physical advantages; Buenaventura has always been developed around the cargo terminal; leaving behind citizens social and spatial factors. Therefore, through a Maritime Terminal for Passengers I explore how architecture can react in order to generate city-revival; in a site which has the specificity of motion but not permanence: cargo, money, tourists, whales, ambient factors move; then, everything flows but nothing remains for its citizens. Even with the fluctuation and movement of everything, how to provoke Spaces of Permanence and Stability? Defining building spatial position through ships parameters, spatial organization was defined according with main citizens’ social needs: employment, public space and water service. Sea Water Surface and Rain Water Fall behaviors were parameters used for building spatiality definition: interweaving the waves like passengers, visitors and cars paths, to generate surfaces; than more than load-unloading passengers, contains activities and public space, and also surfaces able to collect rain water. Therefore, being more than a landmark, the building provokes stability through its spaces: new employment opportunities [sailing school, repairing boats, commercial areas, and restaurant]; more visitors, passenger, and then investors’ attraction; new city image [increasing city identity and appropriation feeling]; new public space [improving citizen’s spatial conditions and life quality]. Furthermore, the emerging attractive and monumental shape is not only effective according to the created new image, but also effective because of the new rain water collection system: an element able to collect in a high efficient way [3 times more than a normal surface] which helps to solve one of the population’s main problems: the lack of water service for a 10% of the inhabitants. All previous exposed facts provoke spaces of stability, city revival-dialogue between city–port; through an infrastructure project.Hyperbody Graduation LabArchitectureArchitectur