Habitando San Martín: Formulación de un hábitat integral aprovechando áreas subutilizadas de la ciudad de Bogotá

Abstract

Since early 90’s, the formal housing has suffered major changes, radically affecting their social and legal role to become a lucrative profit for private sector builders, prioritizing quantity and not the quality of housing. On the other hand, the deficit and the high cost of building land in established areas of the city has lead to these groups be made on the periphery, in areas that do not have sufficient infrastructure to meet the needs of families, forcing to undertake long journeys in search of fulfilling their daily tasks, causing problems of segregation, fragmentation and exclusion between the dwelling unit and its surroundings or what is identified as "diffuse city" affecting the population of the city. Through research, it has been possible to identify areas that count with highly developable land which is underutilized because of the change in urban dynamics, to develop the projective proposal, underutilized ground from industrial sector will be used specifically. These underutilized areas are the precise scenario to develop this projective proposal of social housing, since they count with a whole consolidated infrastructure that allows connectivity to the urban centrality, providing users with equipments, service zones, playgrounds and offices, ensuring users to have easy access to the city; so that the Richard Rogers model of “compact city” (2001) is introduced, seeking to balance the dwelling, its environment and society by helping to create urban dynamics to improve the city through their collective and social use.