Tenancies in the center of Medellín: a life of poverty in the middle of aesthetic expression

Abstract

Entire families have no shelter alternative than the commonly known in Colombia as tenancy, which, over the years has become one of the truly viable alternatives to solve the problem of a “ceiling” despite the fact that in most cases they do not respond with quality and efficiency to the housing needs of individuals or families.

The problematic of the tenancy eradicates in the fact that its sense was individuality. The issue of tenancy is that its spatiality, whose meaning was individual, is transformed into a collective consent. There is a domestication of space and objects, that is, they acquire a different emotional value. In tenancies exists a problem that is affecting proximity and the rhythms of daily living; humanizing the spaces and expressing a different esthetics. This process will shape a new codes and an inhabit that affects the possibilities of each area where we love, eat, fight, cook, watch television and relate to others, affecting the functioning of everyday life.