Metodología de diseño y anteproyecto para la producción social del espacio urbano en la comunidad de Parcoloma. (Cuenca, Ecuador)

Abstract

Designing a space that favors social appropriation is a challenge for urban design.The phases from its conception to its production go beyond the tools of urban-architectural design. There are specific areas of knowledge such as ecology, sociology, economics, politics and many others that must be taken into account in order to start an urban design project. This thesis project considers that the socially appropriate development of a project is based on the robustness of its concepts and methodological rigor with respect to the participation of the actors involved. Thus, it is important to have a theoretical framework that reinforce the daily practices and ideologies of users in public space. This work is carried out through an agreement between the University of Cuenca and the representatives of the community of Parcoloma (Azuay, Ecuador). Under this background, we start from some pre-established community requirements that are assumed given the components of the urban project; to this is added the pandemic crisis that occurred worldwide, which forced us to modify the methodology proposed in the design of the thesis. However, the process carried out has shown that the starting conditions can be reconfigured and enhanced as there is no exact recipe for social urbanism, and that the cards available to the designer enable various situations of cooperation with the territorial actors over time, permeating the spatiality conceived with the people and their culture, being them who finally produce their space.However, the process carried out has shown that the starting conditions can be reconfigured and enhanced as there is no exact recipe for social urbanism, and that the cards available to the designer enable various situations of cooperation with the territorial actors over time, permeating the spatiality conceived with the people and their culture, being them who finally produce their space. However, the process carried out has shown that the starting conditions can be reconfigured and enhanced as there is no exact recipe for a social urbanism project, and that the cards available to the project executor enable various situations of cooperation with the territorial actors over time, permeating the spatiality conceived with the people and their culture, being them who finally produce their space. Consequently, this degree work proposes a methodology of participatory urban design with focus groups through the application of digital media. The result obtained is a preliminary project that explores countless positions and visions of perceived and lived space, managing to consolidate the aspirations of a group of users through what has been called a transfunctional organization chart as the structuring axis of the proposed spatial strategies and design solutions.