Propuesta de intervención urbano - arquitectónica de las plazas Santa Ana y plaza de las Flores ante los retos de distanciamiento social derivados de la COVID-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the public space of cities worldwide, so that they have been restricted for their users, which directly affected merchants who work in these spaces and people who transit and go to these squares as a escape point to those limited spaces in their homes. The objective of this degree work was to develop a proposal for an urban architectural intervention in the Santa Ana and Las Flores squares, where four phases of analysis were proposed. In the first, a theoretical basis was developed that contemplates general concepts such as public space and simplifies them to more specific ones, that is, the squares that carry out a commercial activity in a historical context and how they developed during the pandemic. In the second, the analysis of different case studies that provide information about the adaptations in terms of architecture and guidelines that shopping malls around the world have taken. In the third, the development of the diagnostic phase of the study places, which resulted in an approach to the current state of said spaces and those actions they took to promote their activities. Finally, in the last phase, general design guidelines were proposed that contributed to the final proposal for each of the study places. This research concludes that the squares do not have an adequate distribution of their space, which has caused their inactivity during the highest peak of the pandemic, and that after it the biosecurity measures have had a low impact on the activities of the plazas.