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The Oblivion that Inhabits Us

Part 2 Project 2025
Laura Garzón
 Jorge Tadeo Lozano University | Colombia
At the heart of Bogotá lies an architectural fracture: the National Museum of Memory, a building conceived as a symbol of reconciliation for the Colombian conflict that, ironically, remains unfinished and abandoned. Its halted structure reflects the nation it represents: fragmented, suspended between remembering and forgetting.

This project does not approach that condition as a flaw to be corrected, but as a projective potential. Rather than closing or completing what was left unfinished, the proposal chooses to open to the void, to mourning, and to the city by tracing a subterranean corridor that guides memory from shadow into light.

The aim is not to finish an incomplete work, but to activate its silence, to transform inertia into gesture, and pause into inhabitable space. The intervention proposes an architecture that does not impose answers but formulates questions: one that walks with its fractures exposed, fragments itself with dignity, refuses to become a monument, and instead becomes a living device of memory.

Tutor(s)
Pedro Bright
Pedro Jaramillo
2025
Image 01: Conceptual rendering of 26th Street showing the architectural response to an unfinished memory, transforming absence into spatial testimony at the National Museum of Memory.
Image 02: Photographic documentation of the abandoned museum’s current state, highlighting its unresolved presence within Bogotá’s institutional fabric and its symbolic disconnection from public life.
Image 03: Aerial analysis of memory corridor within urban context, mapping institutional sites connected to Colombian collective memory.
Image 04: Conceptual diagram illustrating three design strategies: displacement, resilience, and reconciliation through architectural fragmentation.
Image 05: Axonometric representation of the displacement strategy: a ritual tunnel of return that re-signifies forced migration through bodily experience and urban connection.
Image 06: Interior rendering of the resilience strategy, where suspended red chairs and fractured voids embody absence, resistance, and memory as spatial tension.
Image 07: Rendering of the reconciliation rooftop: an elevated threshold between city and sky, where memory opens toward the future and architecture becomes horizon.
Image 08: Longitudinal section tracing a cathartic journey through displacement, resilience, and reconciliation where architecture becomes a ritual ascent through collective memory.
Image 09: Urban plan showing the museum’s reintegration into the city through permeable public space, transforming the site into an emotional and civic corridor.
Image 10: Final architectural model showcasing the project’s approach to activating unfinished memory where architecture refuses closure and walks with its wounds exposed.
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