Mauricio Salcedo’s creative process is based on the exploration and approach to architecture, understanding it from its habitability and spatiality linked to memory and the collective processes that shelter it.
Starting from the immediate setting of his childhood, he makes reference to the house where he lives, and in this way he establishes a dialogue with self-construction architecture.
Salcedo’s work points out aspects such as the condition of forced displacement and rural exodus, intrinsic in the settlement processes of most of the constructions called self-construction; and at the same time, he proposes a view where the house is a vital resource that goes beyond its functional character, pointing out traditions and collectivity as essential aspects of its development and understanding it as a transversal aspect to its latent stratification.
Among his interests are sculpture and graphic production, processes that he uses to work together with photographic archives (both from his house and surrounding areas, as well as from the city he lives in), and his family album, which help to give an account of a memory that moves between personal and collective and ends up being one more constructive element, which added to the construction systems results in the concept of a house.