AR.02

Solano High School

Educational Infrastructure as regerator of public space.

Type

Academic Research

Bachelors Thesis

Dec 2017 - Jun 2018

Institution

Universidad del Azuay Cuenca, Ecuador

PhD. Carla Hermida

The project proposes an intervention model in underused educational and cultural properties along Avenida Solano. This avenue is one of six corridors that belong to the pedestrian network presented in the Mobility and Public Spaces Plan of Cuenca (PMEP).

The proposal seeks to boost the historical, urban and landscape qualities of the Solano Promeborders, with buildings exempt from the urban environment end by suppressing the relationship between the facades and the public space.

Based on the strategies proposed by the PMEP, the intervention transforms the building into aring an active area with users throughout the day. By eliminating the architectural barriers, it is proposed to recover the connection between street, public space and building, improving mobility, physical and visual connection between the school and the boulevard of the “Paseo Solano”.

Urban startegy focused on implementing educational and cultural centers along the Av.Solano as regenerators of the Corridor Cordero / Benigno/ Solano throung the enhacement of pedestrial trips.

By eliminating architectural barriers, and promoting new uses the index of closed facades in the axis decreases from 63% to 37%

By raising a network of “high rotation” educational facilities, space for increases from 25% to 60%, returning the street space to the citizen.