The Urban Design and Mixed-Use building for Internally Displaced People (IDP) in Cartagena, Colombia includes the beneficial components of a contemporary mixed-income housing intervention by establishing an appropriate development density and diverse income mix. This provides a means for social reintegration by design, and offers a regionally and economically sustainable housing typology. This project’s focus is on the unique history and hardships encountered by IDP living in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. The IDP are the result of internal unrest due to civil wars as well as commercial development which leads to displacement. Many of these displaced families do not have a location to call home and they are forced to live in shacks that are located about two hours away from downtown Cartagena, Colombia. Currently, Colombia has the world's second highest number of IDP, around five million. In an attempt to mitigate this increasing crisis, this plan serves to provide a socially, economically, environmentally sustainable solution to this problem.

The purpose of the project is to have a partnership between the public and private sectors. The government should buy property closer to the city and issue proposals to have private developers develop it to the extent that there is both mixed-income housing and facilities for ecotourism. There would be hotels, cultural events and urban gardens in a horizontal and vertical landscape in addition to aquafarming. This way, the displaced people are part of a community that is supported by education and employment — so there is a relationship between the displaced people and opportunities, and they can contribute to the economy and their communities. This type of structure would eventually become part of the city’s normal economic structure, and allow for sustainable farming and food production.

This proposed master plan includes two hotel towers to serve as employment generators for IDP and other residents in Cartagena. The Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cultural Center will enhance the rich cultural aspects of the city through dancing, theater, performing arts presentations, and will include a small museum showcasing the works of the Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Five towers that include vertical and horizontal farming are proposed to sustain 25% of the units assigned to IDP, with options to include wind farms on the roof of the towers. An organic market will gather and sell the products produced from the vertical farming, and a business center will provide legal and financial help to IDP. A day care center, a public school, and a health center for IDP are also proposed.

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