Galería de artes en el barrio Granda Centeno

Abstract

The project responds to the site needs, which is the joining is two neighbourhoods “Granda Centeno” and “Quito Tennis”. This place in Quito, because of its historical development an important breaking edge is created and can be clearly noticed by the urban morphology as well as in the site comfort. The project is proposed as an urban connector, which can generate, not only an encounter and reference point, but also, a physical connection between these neighbourhoods, by the proposal of an Arts Gallery. The main program appears from the urban analysis of the place, especially from the existing equipment, the timing of the use of spaces and the average age of the inhabitants; because these factors are the ones to determine the needs to develop the idea. On the other side, the site has not enough encounter points nor public spaces in which people can have social interaction, in consequence, one the project´s important parts will be public spaces. An important characteristic of this particular place is the landscape since nearby there is a protected forest area, and the chosen land itself has a big natural area in a place where a park exists and in the main portion where the architecture will be projected. The main purpose of this project is to generate a joining point between two separate neighbourhood and at the same time, give the inhabitants public spaces in which they can interact and educate themselves in arst and culture