Murindó resettlement

The municipality of Murindó is located at the border between the departments of Antioquia and Chocó (Colombia). At 1992, this municipality suffered a massive earthquake, which set Antioquia’s government the obligation to temporarily displace the affected population to the Atrato’s riverside, disregarding the constant overflowing problems that this new site has. Early at 2017, this makeshift town underwent one of its worst floodings, at the extent to which calamity state was declared. This meant that Murindó’s inhabitants were required to be relocated again, although this time it will be to a much safer area located at the foot of the mountain 14 kilometers away from its current location.    

The proposal for the new urban settlement needs to be guided by the postulates of economic and environmental sustainability. Furthermore the biodiversity’s protection as well as the existing rich landscape are fundamental premises to be contemplated in the master plan. Having understood the topographical characteristics of the area, a starting point for the design is established, it being a longitudinal central axis in the form of a boulevard that goes through the town from south to north, followed by three transversal biotic axes originated from a green natural belt at the foot of the mountain and ‘irrigated’ through out the urban intervention. This mentioned architectural elements provide cohesion between the artificial doing of human beings and the natural richness of such marvelous tropical forest.