The modern urban space: the Tequendama-Bavaria complex in Bogotá

The Tequendama-Bavaria project, constructed between 1950 and 1982, is an example of a set of modern architectural urban values; it poses a possible answer to the contemporary housing problems that Bogotá encounters. From a bird’s eye view, this paper gives the reader a tour around the ground floor with the purpose of demonstrating the project based solutions that reflect the value of ‘building a city’, and all of its architectural and urban considerations including, scales, scope, areas, and the spaces and elements that they are composed of. The tour is given using different means: the lenses of two of the photographers who can claim to have captured the process of transformation in 1950’s Bogotá, the reconstruction of the project phase, and the unification of the relationship between the two sets of buildings.