"USTACHI"; proyecto urbano integrador del espacio público como estructurante de la trama urbana

Abstract

The city of Bogotá has had a VIS and VIP housing deficit and has not been able to implement within the urban perimeters since there are no suitable development zones for this purpose. This need has led to the search for new areas for urbanization, new findings on the edge of the city and new large tracts of land with ideal conditions for housing construction. In this way, the management determines the guidelines for the development of said housing in the newly found land in areas within the city of Usme. Allowing for the development of large housing projects in a county with specific environmental characteristics and needs with a model that has been traditional and long implemented for years in the City of Bogotá does not contribute to the endogenous characteristics that are implicit, in place and adds value to a territory already rich in history and cultural traditions. The arrival of this type of model of housing, which is not intended for a place like the City of Usme, has revealed that there is no development plan that adapts correctly in place to organize and recognize these new occupational requirements specific to this territory. These housing projects have been developed in their own individual way specific to location and isolated from the surrounding territory and specific ecological requirements, without as much as offering a mutual form of interaction with the land and the people occupying its space, its disconnected from the traditional urban structure, offering up little public space and green areas to enjoy, also without allowing a connection with the main ecological structure to provide a coexisting future for all. There are many things that people value from this territory in the city of Usme, from what we use every day to the subtle implications that arrive at a social level since traditionally, by simply forming a new "urban expansion" with a claim to maintain a rural culture and heritage, it creates a new need to build on these social relations between the inhabitants and which has been done in an indirect and spontaneous way. Its operation is based on the main road in which most of the daily activities converge and turn the main park into the meeting point. These two elements, which are the usual characteristics of any public space became even more evident in the several visits made to the park, being able to personally verify how they allow social activity to be generated by a friendly encounter with a friend added with a simple exit to conclude and complete the basic necessary purchases of the day, within the same space, since the axis of the park creates a space to interact and possibly converse with others. The main road and park frame a visual view with a fluid transition towards its environmental component. The housing models of that they are implementing has no blueprint generating social, cultural and commercial interactions. and the few that are, are not inherent to the population of the city of Usme, since these models are not designed with the traditional geographical characteristics and needs, factored in. The project proposes that based on the methodology of the suggested solution, added with the type of diagnosis made to the territory, the correct move going for is to mitigate the problem of the occupation to the territory, which has not been consistent with the indigenous characteristics of the land and its population, there will have to be the use of a systematic analysis, new proposals for how to assess the landscape, a new updated proposal for the public space of the project, to create the necessary guidelines to allow the correct and humane occupation of the territory