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MEDELLIN TOWERS

Design Team: Jaime Correa

Informal settlements can be disorienting to visitors or strangers. This project , in the Santo Domingo Comune of Medellin, re-introduces a proven way-finding method to celebrate the target of its many sub-centers (see San Gimignano, Cadiz, or Cartagena). The new viewing towers are composed of a kit of parts that can be assembled by individual residents to fit their family housing needs. Each tower provides small public spaces with decks and monuments at the base; the walls carry messages of hope in the form of virtues

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