Does Tedinitis Affect Other Systems

SLUM March 4, 2009 JOSE MANUEL SANZ





more voluptuous vegetation, which involves in its shadow beautiful bird sounds and smells more refined, that brings us so close poetic descriptions of paradise in every culture, ends contained by the wall of the fence.

In its backfill, some nails and a rope to hang things up the most elementary way home, the least livable place around which is stacked, occupying the street, people, animals, equipment necessary and often low production unit obtained the living.

The everything and nothing, empty perfume and stench-filled life, infinitely separated, or linked - by a few inches of brick.

For the sensitive observer, Ahmedabad - India - is the place where the distance between heaven and hell is a head turn.

Today we have done in a group home visit Sharabai, the work of the late stage of Le Corbusier india. Let all the feelings of this extraordinary home for later. Only refer to as reinforcing the contrast with the previous visit, as the bright side of the wall.


In the morning I visited with Carmen and Javier, the group of students from the School, near the river Shabarmathi Slum. They needed to collect data for their course work.


Our steps have meandered between people and the scraps of a way of life, between joy and bustle of the novelty of our presence and some sign of misgivings about the invasion of the intimate, face perception, perhaps on the other hand, a trivialization on ours, deep dignity.


Our shaken spirit slid and ranged from an instinctive fear of contact and the urge to respond to every look with a caress. Because we were surrounded by glances in each one of which was beating and beating felt deep and authentic human being, everything that definitely makes us equal, beyond the obvious cultural differences or circumstances.


The Slum is threatened, condemned, to its imminent demolition, as has happened in the other room, due to the construction of levees and infrastructure works. Besides cleaning up the central area of \u200b\u200bthe city along the river, there, sure, some speculative reason.


The way of life is so entrenched that when the Slum is knocked down with him tear down the stage of life for many families. Conscious, or rather, their limitations, they like to live well, perhaps because the Slum is their only opportunity to balance between scarce means and the maximum-optimal, which can be achieved with them.


Slum rupture is therefore the solution of a difficult balance to restore the short or even medium term. Its inhabitants will face not only the uprooting of a different physical environment but the fracture dramatic a way of life distilled down through generations.


Quite a challenge for the social response to the dignity of these human groups. What a beautiful architectural challenge - what an opportunity - to build new spaces, with improved means constructive and better sanitary conditions, in which nothing is lost so much valuable, in which can be recognized.


Two years after the SLUM's definitely gone Shabarmathi