CHISACÁ, Recuperación del borde del río Tunjuelo a partir del diseño urbano sostenible

Abstract

Rivers in urban environments play an important role in maintaining the balance of urban ecosystems, which are formed by components of the environment, the existing fauna and flora, and human beings. However, since man settled near the water tributaries, their main function as a life circulation system has changed, as they have been used as a polluting source by industry to damage the environment.

In this sense, the city of Bogotá presents urban and environmental problems due to its accelerated and uncontrolled growth, which causes an expansion in the peripheries of the city and the edges of the rivers that cross it, the latter generating a negative appropriation by the inhabitants of the sector and the floating population.

The Tunjuelo River, being one of the longest rivers in the city of Bogota and crossing most of the poor areas along its banks, has conditions such as illegal settlements and points contaminated by garbage in its environmental fringe, causing a progressive deterioration of the river.

This document evaluates the importance of recovering the border of the Tunjuelo River through the investigation of strategies of sustainable urban design and strategies of topofilia that allow recovering the image of the sector, the environmental impact, the urban and cultural memory and the sense of belonging of the population in the selected area.

These strategies suggest that the Tunjuelo river bank be a space of urban connection, an important urban reference in the city, an articulating axis that promotes leisure and integration activities, as well as passive and active recreation for the community.