Diseño de un espacio público para el adulto mayor en el Centro Histórico de Cuenca

Abstract

Public space is the nucleus of cities, it is the space that corresponds to that city territory where anyone has the right to be and move freely, however the privatization of public space, the inadequate accessibility and lack of Open urban spaces have been the reason of analysis and studies around the world in order to demonstrate the importance and viability that the public space gives to generate sustainable cities. That is why this thesis aims to contribute to the study of the public space importance, beginning with a theoretical analysis of its evolution, by analyzing the different types of public space, revising patterns for designing a quality urban spaces, until Focus on the old people in public space and their different types of problems: physical and psychological problems that limit the access to these equipment’s and make an analysis 3 cases of public space with the objective of extracting supplies to design a quality public space, in this way may arrive to an analysis for obtaining of the site in which is located the preliminary project, based on spatial syntax analysis that show us the road and pedestrian connectivity in the different axes of our city, therefore zones with greater character of stay, Both areas with greater character of stay, this added to the census of the INEC 2010 that ranks the zones with higher incidence of the older people in Cuenca allows us to obtain the appropriate site to perform the preliminary project focusing on the Cuenca historical center , between the axes of Gran Colombia, Coronel Talbot, Estévez De Toral and Mariscal Lamar streets, With the objective of generating a quality public space that could be inclusive in the older people, without architectural barriers with emphasis on the accessibility of people, promoting the cuencanos interrelation and promoting the appropriation and sustainability of citizenship with the historic center.