Project material
Residential urban design
Tucurinca sits in Cajicá, on the northern savanna of Bogotá, on flat land in the sector facing Chía, surrounded by tile-roofed country compounds and living hedges. In that flat, green landscape, the urban design is the project: before any architecture, the ground that will hold it is drawn.
The master plan orders the suburban development into three components — the overall urbanism, the Trazo houses and the Matiz apartments — over a clear structure: rows of housing to the east, branching-plan buildings among groves to the west, and a central spine of public space with a plaza, a court and playgrounds. The urbanism license, approved in 2020, sets low-occupancy rules (a maximum index of 0.2 on the clustered-housing lot): the void governs the built mass.
The public space is specified with the same rigor as the homes: the playgrounds were selected from international catalogues (Kompan, Lappset, Galopín, Berliner, Amirplay). The aerial photographs record the passage from drawing to construction: first the excavations and foundations repeating the plan's footprints exactly, then the rows of finished houses along paved streets, with the clay court and green strips already in use.
The plan made footprint.
The process began by getting to know the land: during the proposal phase a drone survey fixed the real geometry of the site. On that base the plan was drawn — strips of houses, buildings among trees, a spine of public space — and the 2020 license turned it into rule. The construction aerials tell the rest with almost archaeological precision: the excavations trace in earth the very same footprints of the general plan, until the finished houses and the clay court confirm that the original layout reached the ground intact.
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Axonometric of the general plan: the development read as a
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- Category
- Urban Design
- Typology
- Urban master plan
- Year
- 2019 - 2024
- Area
- 20.000 m²
- Program
- Residential urban design
- Location
- Cajicá, Cundinamarca
- City
- Cajicá, Cundinamarca
- Status
- Portfolio
