Habitáculo para la memoria

Abstract

It is essential to clarify that it arises from a particular situation that has especially affected my way of life in the city. Everything goes back to my childhood, as I have been adopted by this city (Bogotá) since I was one year old. Until I was ten, I lived in a town (Pacho Cundinamarca) near Bogotá; the customs, the people, the way of life were completely different from what happens in the city. In particular, something that remains in my memory, in my recollection, is my grandparents' house where my early years of life took place.This house is special because of its layout, its construction, and above all its space (habitat space)—a spacious house with a huge yard, full of trees and farm animals, a place suitable for growing up, for running, for sharing, and above all for living.Upon arriving in the city, I went from a space like the one mentioned to a room that I shared with my father and mother, a room in which everything had to be arranged in such a so that in every part of it there were the spaces that are usually found in a house. In this way, my room was a house, a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen, and fortunately, there was a bathroom outside of it, not to mention that this bathroom was shared with other people living in other rooms of the place.