La transformación de un no-lugar a un lugar, análisis de un espacio público en la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

Cities face transformation processes that directly affect the way of inhabiting space, they are not their own evolutions around the dynamics of the city, they are transformations that affect factors such as; inclusion, security and the rights of citizenship. From this perspective, public space allows drastic changes to be made visible around the elimination of social relations, the presence of socio-cultural memory, the sense of permanence and the value of contemplation. Unfortunately, places endowed with meaning begin a gradual and complex transformation that is characterized by the reduction or lack of the constituent elements, adopting the category of non-places. In this sense, the present study was aimed at identifying objective parameters that allow counteracting that transformation in public space, parameters for the transformation from a non-place to a place. To achieve the objective, a compilation of theoretical references was developed that address the problem in different contexts. In addition, the components related to the human being and the public space were conceptualized. In general, the different conceptions were analyzed from the perspective of different authors with different points of view in relation to the type and characteristics that make the existence of places relevant. To show the possibilities of transformation of the spaces framed within the category “non-places” to places with applied projects. In the second chapter, different case studies were analyzed, which in their intervention apply norms, strategies and guidelines with the aim of mitigating or transforming the negative effects that lead a public space to become a non-place or a public space in deterioration. To approach the study from a specific case, an analysis has been carried out on a public space in the city of Cuenca. It should be noted that Cultural Heritage is and will be the most eloquent expressive component of human progress, because through this it is possible to discover and establish the ways of life of a city. Due to that, this research establishes El Puente Roto as a case study and with the purpose of analyzing the patterns that contribute to the logic of heritage conservation, the recovery of social relationships, and above all of the collective memory of the town. In a later stage, it is proposed to elaborate a proposal of guidelines that allow generating habitability in the public space. Within the methodology of this research, the surveys formulated to users of public space from an anthropological perspective are used as associated instruments (external professional support in this field), all this with the aim of recognizing the state of the selected public space and its process of obsolescence, to determine if it is a non-place from an architectural and anthropological perspective. This action is developed in the third chapter and is directed towards the recognition of the current situation of the public space that constitutes El Puente Roto. The analysis integrated the social dynamics around linked architecture, from a perspective that seeks to recognize the human being and his behavior in the environment. For this purpose, information was collected in situ using quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques. In the fourth chapter, the information collected was processed through a diagnostic analysis within the logical field, using different tools such as the SWOT matrix, Vester matrix, problem tree that made it possible to identify the problems that the place under study was going through, to show the risks regarding the possibilities of becoming a “non-place”. With the analysis of the information, we proceeded to establish mechanisms to counteract this reality, under the methodology of the logical framework, a tree of objectives was elaborated in order to establish guidelines, goals and objectives for a future intervention taking into account the criteria of living conditions.