In this book, we review a set of Plan:b projects in Colombia through the environmental, social, and voluntary constraints we faced, and the interim agreements we built around them. We carry out a reconstruction of the central facts behind these buildings through an “inverse” exercise—explaining each project based on contextual constraints and not on singular architectural ideas. We review the work of other authors and the way they understand limitations and difficulties that are part of their creative activity and attempt to generate a broad reflective base to approach our architectural projects and the predominant role that restrictions have played in them.
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Three Types of Constraints |
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12 Projects in 120 Constraints |
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San Vicente Community Center |
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Puerto Triunfo Community Center |
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Santo Domingo Kindergarten |
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Click Clack Hotel - Medellin |
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Felipe Mesa is an architect at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, in Colombia. He holds an M.Arch from the Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (ETSAB) in Spain. Felipe is founder partner and principal at Plan:b architects, a firm based in Medellín, Colombia. He is an assistant professor at the Arizona State University, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the Design School.
Federico Mesa is an architect at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia. He holds an M. Arch from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), Colombia and is Partner and Principal at Plan:b architects, firm based in Medellín, Colombia. Federico is an assistant professor at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Facultad de Arquitectura, Colombia.
