Project Description
Casa de la Lluvia de Ideas is a community space in the peripheral barrio La Cecilia in Bogota. It embodies the struggle for territory and dignified permanence of the communities of the higher basin of the Fucha River. The local community of La Cecila and the Colectivo Arquitectura Expandida worked together in the process of autoconstrucción of the space in guadua and polycarbonate.
The construction occurred during the IV Encuentro de Arquitectura Expandida in 2012; since then, the house has served as a community center and library under a scheme of self-governance. The process and the building are symbols for the right to the city in the context of this urban border. New Colectivos have joined efforts with Arquitectura Expandida and the local community for the maintenance of the house. They also embrace collective research projects around the notion of risk management from the community’s perspective as a challenge to institutional resettlement policies.