Elementum: Diseño paisajístico de la avenida Jimenez en Bogotá

Abstract

The Colombian capital currently presents itself as the third city in Latin America with the largest deficit of public space and green areas for its inhabitants, which makes it necessary the implementation of a project at the urban level that can mitigate the need for more than 10.000.000 inhabitants and that in turn transform notoriously the downtown area of Bogota. For this reason arises as a response to this problematic elementum, a project that consists of the urban landscape intervention environmental axle located in the downtown area of the capital of Colombia, referred to among the Plazoleta adjacent to the university of the Andes and the plaza de San Victorino along the Avenida Jimenez; based on the reactivation of the San Francisco river, thus giving it the importance that this has for the capital to historical levels.This project consists in a intervention of nature and urban landscape where through the restructuring of the mobility systems, distributional-spatial and environmental, design a new urban model, suitable for the high floating population to be mobilised in the sector. The reactivation of the river is to provide a space designing a urban axis connecting the different squares, parks and squares that are near the river, the main concept of the project are the four natural elements based on the studies carried out by the philosophers of ancient Greece in your search for the soul of nature, those who claim that the matter was made on the four elements, water, air, earth and fire