Centro Cultural Comunitario en el barrio Santa Clara

Abstract

The way of understand and build the city has been changing constantly in accordance to the needs and ways of life of its inhabitants. Since the industrial revolution, cities were designed for the expansion of their limits and their commercial growth, bringing with it a model of a dispersed and segregated city, this way of making a city has caused many problems in terms of quality of life of the inhabitants, becoming increasibling palpable and that require solutions to the new dynamics of life in cities. Quito, was no stranger to this way of understand and order its territory, since its first Zoning plan, the "Odriozola Plan" in 1945, it was seen how the city, zoned its uses and specialized its territory, to give rise to the separation of many activities and social classes in different areas of the territory. Because of this arrangement and the growth of the city itself, this model continues reproducing throughout the territory, two marked phenomena are observed, areas that have entered into processes of change, but with different dynamics; On one hand, there are areas of the city that are in process of development (especially in the peripheries) where internal population is migrating, mostly residential areas, on the other hand, consolidated areas that have undergone physical mutations with transformations of uses and socioeconomic and that they are losing their habitability, since their territory is specialized for a single activity, in this case a revaluation is required to turn these areas into attractive points of the city. In response to what has been seen in current cities, there is a need to promote the complexity of the city, which leads us to propose potential areas where the diversity and mix of urban users, uses and functions can be increased, to generate a balance between inhabitants and different activities that can do in a determinated territory. In this context and with the particularities found in Santa Clara neighborhood, the development of a Community Cultural Center is proposed, which covers the needs of leisure and recreation, carenhetes in the place. Where the urban functions of the neighborhood are balanced with cultural and community activities, a connection is generated between the community in public spaces and it becomes an attractive place to live.