Estrategias para una planificación sostenible del uso y ocupación del suelo para barrios de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

The evaluation of sustainability in neighborhoods through the application of international indicators presents difficulties when adapting the requirements of the tools to the local context, this is mainly due to the conditions in which they were created, different scales, different regions and different situations that are foreign to our reality. In relation to this, this research plans the development of a series of guidelines and strategies that allow international indicators of sustainable land use and occupation to be applied in the neighborhoods of the city of Cuenca. For this purpose, three certifications will be analyzed: LEED-ND, BREEAM and CASBEE-UD. Based on the evaluation of two case studies within the city, the Miraflores and La Campiña neighborhoods, their current conditions in terms of land use and occupation and their behavior in the face of the accelerated and uncontrolled growth that the city during this time are diagnosed. By comparing the results of their evaluation, it is possible to verify the similarities and differences in their levels of sustainability according to the requirements of the international certifications mentioned above. This research concludes with a proposal for intervention in one of the neighborhoods, which is based on the weaknesses and strengths found after the evaluation of indicators. The application of strategies in the urban-architectural proposal has as its main objective the exemplification of how the requirements of the indicators for the design and construction of the neighborhoods contribute to the improvement of the levels of sustainability in the neighborhoods.