Diseño de estrategias urbano arquitectónicas para mitigar el déficit de áreas verdes en el sector de Yanuncay de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

These days, cities have a severe lack of Green spaces in their consolidated areas. After identifying this phenomena in Yanuncay, in Cuenca, this thesis was oriented to design a strategy to reduce it.

Starting with a revision of theories on sustainable city and urban green areas, the strategy was designed to increase green spaces in consolidated areas, with green infrastructure, to benefit from its ecological services as well. A case study of exemplary projects was made to obtain background. After, the green spaces’ current condition was diagnosed in Yanuncay, where the project would locate, through the use of a methodology of sustainability indicators. The project was designed according to the parameters obtained in the theoretical phase, and the diagnose indicators were applied once more, this time with the project included. The first finding is that all the values regarding green area and volume of trees increased, proving the validity of the strategy. Another finding was that the amount of permeable soil decreased, because the project gave priority to recovering public space for citizens’ use.