Refuncionamiento de edificaciones en proceso de obsolescencia. Propuesta de intervención urbano-arquitectónica en el Centro de Faenamiento del cantón Cuenca

Abstract

The increase in the production capacity of Cuenca’s slaughterhouse, effect of a continual population increase, it has made that destined installations for this activity, exceed the capacity for which these were built; carrying to this equipment to an obsolescence state, because the current installations are suitable for the proper development of this activity. Therefore, the fact of its transfer, through the conservation of this building, allows assigning it different functions to its original.

Through an urban-architectural proposal to preliminary level in this building, this document purport to generate an urban regeneration of the sector in which it is located, being at the same time a contribution for its correct urban consolidation. For this, an analysis of the context is carried out, in which the disadvantages and the possibilities that are presented for the human settlements present in this sector are identified. Among these, the presence of the industrial zone stands out as a source of employment, but also of contamination; in addition, the water sources that cross the study area stand out as favorable elements, for the insertion of a network of green areas capable of proliferating urban biodiversity. Given these facts, urbanly the proposal developed in this document, beyond increasing the green area index, it proposes to generate a network of bios wales that are presented as extensions of the margins of the water sources, these are able of link the current public spaces with sites of congregation as equipment. Inserting of this way, an ecosystem on urban areas, but at the same time a network of paths that promote alternative mobility methods, to avoid motorized vehicles use. Where the building intervened, together with the property currently used for the trading of livestock, since these have the able to present new recreational spaces, to encourage social cohesion and community integration, these would been the core of this restructuring.