Anteproyecto de renovación urbana en el lugar del Antiguo Terminal Terrestre de Gualaceo

Abstract

The population growth of Gualaceo has caused the city to sprawl. This urban sprawl has compromised the old public facilities located in the core of the city, causing a need for new ones to be constructed in peripheral areas. One of such facilities is the bus transit station. This transit station will stop to operate at the current site and will move to newer updated facilities for benefit of the population. This move can cause the current place to deteriorate and become blighted and in a state of disuse hence, ending the useful life of the facilities at this site. For this reason, this study presents the preliminary project of urban redevelopment for this place. This planning approach of a new space gives it useful life thinking in a complementary project with its surroundings. Through bibliographic research, site data collection, and a search for references, we propose a preliminary project consisting of different actions: The first action is the creation of a new public space consisting of a tourist pavilion. The second is the architectural improvement of the existing sports facility called the Raúl Baca Carbo Coliseum. And the third one is the development of plazas, small urban corridors, and green areas to function as links between the banks of the Santa Bárbara River along the new redevelopment and the city.