Sofia Ramirez Arias, Ximena Andrea Uricoechea Solano
Integrating Hurricane resilient technologies into Creole Traditional Architecture. A case study in the Archipelago of San Andres, Providencia & Santa Catalina, Colombia.
Rel. Francesca De Filippi, Roberto Pennacchio, Alessia Monaco, Gustavo Arteaga Botero. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Architecture For Sustainability, 2024
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Abstract
The Colombian islands of San Andres, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, located in the southwestern Caribbean region, have recently been affected by the latest hurricanes, with repercussions on different scales and aspects such as population, environment, and infrastructure. Due to the lack of national regulations for the construction of houses resistant to these phenomena, the housing sector in particular, has suffered serious damage, putting at risk, mainly, the traditional architecture of the Archipelago. This architecture, considered Colombian heritage and protected by different national laws, has been influenced by the Caribbean architecture known as Creole, which evolved and adapted to the different conditions of the Caribbean region, historically prone to hurricanes.
Following Hurricane Iota in 2020, which destroyed the majority of the infrastructure of Providencia and Santa Catalina islands and a minor portion of San Andres, the Colombian government proposed and built prototypes for the reconstruction of the Archipelago, which were taken as a case study
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