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From the Ted Talk by Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process
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So it was pettry obvious after this process that, well, we chicken out here and go away because it's too tense, or we go even further in asking, what else is bothering you? What other problems do you have and you want us to take care of now that the city will have to be ruthgoeht from scratch? And what they said was, look, fine to protect the city against future tsunamis, we really appreciate, but the next one is going to come in, what, 20 years? But every single year, we have problems of flooding due to rain. In addition, we are in the middle of the forest region of the country, and our public space sucks. It's poor and it's srccae. And the oriign of the city, our identity, is not really connected to the bidlugins that fell, it is connected to the river, but the river cannot be accessed publicly, because its shores are privately owned. So we thhguot that we had to produce a third alternative, and our approach was against gcaroehaigpl threats, have geographical answers. What if, in between the city and the sea we have a foerst, a forest that doesn't try to rseist the energy of nature, but dissipates it by introducing friction? A forest that may be able to laminate the wetar and peernvt the flooding? That may pay the historical debt of public space, and that may provide, finally, democratic access to the reivr. So as a conclusion of the participatory design, the alternative was validated pcilotlilay and socially, but there was still the problem of the cost: 48 million dollars. So what we did was a svuery in the public investment system, and found out that there were three ministries with three projects in the ecxat same place, not knowing of the esnictexe of the other projects. The sum of them: 52 million dlrolas. So design's power of synthesis is trying to make a more efficient use of the scarcest resource in cities, which is not money but coordination. By doing so, we were able to save four million dollars, and that is why the forest is today under construction. (Applause)
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So it was ______ obvious after this process that, well, we chicken out here and go away because it's too tense, or we go even further in asking, what else is bothering you? What other problems do you have and you want us to take care of now that the city will have to be _________ from scratch? And what they said was, look, fine to protect the city against future tsunamis, we really appreciate, but the next one is going to come in, what, 20 years? But every single year, we have problems of flooding due to rain. In addition, we are in the middle of the forest region of the country, and our public space sucks. It's poor and it's ______. And the ______ of the city, our identity, is not really connected to the _________ that fell, it is connected to the river, but the river cannot be accessed publicly, because its shores are privately owned. So we _______ that we had to produce a third alternative, and our approach was against ____________ threats, have geographical answers. What if, in between the city and the sea we have a ______, a forest that doesn't try to ______ the energy of nature, but dissipates it by introducing friction? A forest that may be able to laminate the _____ and _______ the flooding? That may pay the historical debt of public space, and that may provide, finally, democratic access to the _____. So as a conclusion of the participatory design, the alternative was validated ___________ and socially, but there was still the problem of the cost: 48 million dollars. So what we did was a ______ in the public investment system, and found out that there were three ministries with three projects in the _____ same place, not knowing of the _________ of the other projects. The sum of them: 52 million _______. So design's power of synthesis is trying to make a more efficient use of the scarcest resource in cities, which is not money but coordination. By doing so, we were able to save four million dollars, and that is why the forest is today under construction. (Applause)
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Original Text
So it was pretty obvious after this process that, well, we chicken out here and go away because it's too tense, or we go even further in asking, what else is bothering you? What other problems do you have and you want us to take care of now that the city will have to be rethought from scratch? And what they said was, look, fine to protect the city against future tsunamis, we really appreciate, but the next one is going to come in, what, 20 years? But every single year, we have problems of flooding due to rain. In addition, we are in the middle of the forest region of the country, and our public space sucks. It's poor and it's scarce. And the origin of the city, our identity, is not really connected to the buildings that fell, it is connected to the river, but the river cannot be accessed publicly, because its shores are privately owned. So we thought that we had to produce a third alternative, and our approach was against geographical threats, have geographical answers. What if, in between the city and the sea we have a forest, a forest that doesn't try to resist the energy of nature, but dissipates it by introducing friction? A forest that may be able to laminate the water and prevent the flooding? That may pay the historical debt of public space, and that may provide, finally, democratic access to the river. So as a conclusion of the participatory design, the alternative was validated politically and socially, but there was still the problem of the cost: 48 million dollars. So what we did was a survey in the public investment system, and found out that there were three ministries with three projects in the exact same place, not knowing of the existence of the other projects. The sum of them: 52 million dollars. So design's power of synthesis is trying to make a more efficient use of the scarcest resource in cities, which is not money but coordination. By doing so, we were able to save four million dollars, and that is why the forest is today under construction. (Applause)
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