Parque lineal canal Americas fomentando el desarrollo de espacios vitales

Abstract

This project was born from the intention of recovering and bringing back to urban life the Canal Americas, a body of water that has become a focus of fear, crime and garbage waste. A scenario for a horror movie, a place that is in deterioration and suffers from multiple urban and environmental problems. Without good meanings and significance in the collective imagination of the inhabitants of the sector, but which in turn has a great potential to become a tributary of the Bogota River that contributes to improve the condition of dirty water, and instead of being a barrier or a border that segregates two sectors, it becomes a meeting point that brings to the inhabitants the enjoyment of their spaces and different activities that are proposed to develop in this.

Thus, the intention of this degree project is to propose a linear park designed from the concepts of the book of Vital Environments proposed by Ian Bentley and his friends, also taking into account the importance of generating spaces capable of promoting economic development and environmental preservation. A project that allows to weave the social networks of the inhabitants of the two neighborhoods (put the names of the neighborhoods) of Bogota and that brings with it the integration of the existing body of water as the fundamental ecological piece; Converting the Americas canal into a platform that links activities, uses and a means to ensure a better relationship between man and nature.