Corredor arterial ambiental Yomasa: Propuesta urbana para la articulación de la estructura ambiental de la quebrada Yomasa con el entorno urbano de la localidad de Usme

Abstract

Informal development in cities has led to sectors with difficulties in integrating a good quality of life in relation to urban space and the natural environment transformed for urbanization purposes, in this sense, the disarticulation between the natural and built environment is evident, together with social gaps and lack of community participation in interventions that seek to integrate their habitat to formality.

The locality of Usme in the city of Bogotá is no stranger to this condition, since the development of peripheral neighborhoods has compromised the environmental structure, either affecting it categorically or turning its back on it, as is the case with the Yomasa Creek, which to date preserves the watercourse and some environmental values, but which over time has consolidated as a forgotten space, lacking vitality, prone to insecurity and pollution and disconnected from the urban spaces that surround it.

This project proposes an urban-environmental intervention program, which mitigates the physical and spatial problems of the place and restores the lost environmental components of the water corridor, through the implementation of various water-sensitive urban design tools and principles of integral neighborhood improvement as first steps to find the most accurate, productive and necessary intervention solution for this territory and similar informal scenarios and water bodies.