Centro de acopio agrícola en el cantón San Pedro de Huaca Carchi

Abstract

For this work research an urban analysis was developed in San Pedro de Huaca which is located at Tulcán Southeast in Carchi Province. Carchi has 7624 inhabitants according to the last census in 2010 and it has 70.9km of area. It results in a density of 109 inhabitants / km2, and 11.20% of growth. The most representative ages in San Pedro de Huaca are between 19 – 32 and 33-45 years. The Economically Active Population are 5707 inhabitants. This population has a basic level of education between elementary and secondary school in order to their lack of financial resources. (Update of the Pdot of Cantón Huaca, 2014). According to the data obtained from “Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial del Cantón San Pedro de Huaca” the main economic activities are agriculture and farming which represents 73% of the economically active population. Livestock activity and potato cultivation are the main sources of income for the population. The area used for production is 4,251 hectares and the residential area is 1,277 hectares. Potato cultivation has decreased because farmers are empirical in their sowing and harvesting methods, leaving aside science and technology advances, soil studies, fertilizer uses, product quality control, this is the reason why the Price is affected. Having a collection and training center for production where the proper classification, cleaning and transfer of the product is carried out. Satisfying the farmer needs which grows in number every time. The Toyo Ito architecture of the diffuser limit, was born from the modern movement. Toyo Ito one of the most influential architects in the end of twentieth century and early twenty-first century worked for Kikutake Kiyonori one of the main exponents of the Metabolista school with a radically futuristic approach to design. He was born in the 1940s and in 1971 established his own architecture workshop "Urban Robot". A building that rises up in space and has transparent, homogeneous and floating character is called diffuser boundary architecture. It is an image that exists inside of me; an image of soft architecture that has not yet taken a final shape. (Toyo Ito, 1999). For this building the following elements are needed. An architecture as a soft limit that can react to the natural environment. - Architecture that transforms the program into space. - Architecture that strives to achieve transparency and homogeneity. To have that result a equipment is proposed where users have laboratories for research and analysis of foreign agents that affect production and quality. It will have spaces for training, storage and sale of products to supply the sector with staple food. This center will be located in an area with accessibility to cargo transportation and connection between agricultural and urban areas.