EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
PARKLETSQRO
INDEX Introduction Methodology Queretaro Analysis ParkletsQro. Evaluation Reflection
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CREDITS Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Querétaro Epigmenio González No. 500 San Pablo,76130 PO 37, Postal Code 76000, Querétaro, Qro. Tel. (442) 2 38 32 75 http://urbantacticsmx.com Print in México. Editorial Committee: MAR, MSc Urb. Diana García Cejudo Arch. Olga Leticia Aguilar Students of Proyects 6 January - May 2015 Ana Gabriela Escobedo Ana Gabriela Miguel Daniel Medina Eddy Miranda Jorge Cámara Oswaldo Bertin Total or partial reproduction of this document is prohibited by any means without prior express written consent of Institute of Technology and Higher Studies Monterrey to any person or activity that are unrelated to the same. Querétaro, Qro. 2015
A.K.A. Parklet San Francisco
INTRODUCTION The contemporary city faces several challenges difficult to solve, with limited resources, lack of coordination as well as limited public policy making this even more complex to respond efficient especially following the traditional schemes. Trying to give answers and guide a process of change, tactical urbanism proposes an alternative and collective way of city construction. By short-term actions, tactical urbanism intends to start long-term changes enriching the social capital of a community. Proposes an alternative way to build city through collective action. in this context, the major focus of this interventions has been in public space. The public space is par excellence the place of coexistence between inhabitants of a city, spaces that determine the life quality of individuals and therefore a society. That's why we have the responsibility for claiming and creating places to facilitate civic participation and social interaction. Given the city is increasingly fragmented conceding spaces to the car over pedestrians, allocating spaces as transfer places instead of meeting places trying to give an alternative to these challenges, this document is the record of study and project development process ParkletsQro.
“Los Arcos” Santiago de Querétaro, Qro. México
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METHODOLOGY The methodology comes from two approaches. First, an outline of “aprender haciendo� (learning by doing) that uses the research / design to materialize a design alternative. Secondly, the research / design of tactical urbanism actions as a way of intervention in mobility environments. The following diagram explains the methodology in terms of actions, design process and its interrelation with the concepts.
ACTIONS
nodes
atlas
nodes evaluation nodes selection
design strategy six alternatives alternatives evaluation
intervention site selection from the alternatives
DESIGN PROCESS
CONCEPTS
mobility environments nodes
complete streets
tactical urbanism
place-making good practices
parklets
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#parkletsQro prototypes development
setting-up #parkletsQro observation/evaluation #parkletsQro
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QUERETARO ANALYSIS The state of Queretaro is located in central Mexico, in a region known as El Bajio. Its capital is the city of Santiago de Queretaro (located about 200 km northwest of Mexico City). Queretaro limits in the north with the state of San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato in the West, the East with Hidalgo, to the Southeast with the State of Mexico and the Southwest with Michoacan coordinates 20º35’ 27.6’’ N, 100º23 ‘’’W 27.6.
Queretaro is a contrasting city, the beauty of its historic center, a World Heritage Site that seems out of tune with the development of more than ten industrial parks, home of companies in the automotive and aeronautic industry. During the past 30 years the urban area of the city has increased because of uncontrolled housing developments on the outskirts because it is possible to get cheaper land to build housing and generate the phenomenon “sprawl”.
Every 24 hours 52 new families settle in Queretaro.
These factors involves several urban problems; among them we have the problems of urbanization of the suburbs, the problems in the traffic, the insufficient urban transport, the length and time of the journeys, the lack of infrastructure for basic services, the polarization of the city and society. The public space is affected by these problems, because the green areas are replaced by parking lots. One of the questions that was made in this project, is the city needing an urban design for cars or for pedestrians?
Internal migration from other states to Queretaro and its metropolitan area: Corregidora, El Marques, Huimilpan and San Juan del Rio. 10
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PARKLETSQRO TACTICAL URBANISM San Francisco, United States, is known as the first city to introduce and perform what is known as "parklets". Its purpose is to convert spaces dedicated to cars like parking areas, to public spaces for pedestrians in order to promote the ideology that cities should be tailored to the pedestrian and not in the car. Since then the building of Parklets has become a global movement, which seeks to promote alternative ways that promote a balance between the existing domain by cars in cities and pedestrians. This is the case of the city of Rio de Janeiro where recently it was approved a law allowing the creation and installation of parklets in certain areas of the city where it occupies one or two parking spaces, in addition to the regulations approved all parklets they must present a sign with the legend "public space". Therefore the possibility of designing new spaces for citizens where you believed it was prohibited. ParkletQRO is a collective initiative that aspires to improve a space in the city. It is an urban intervention that brings the citizen a public and transfer friendly, safe and fun space. Seeks to understand and communicate the potential of small strategic actions in the transformation of our city. Trough a tactical urbanism intervention, we hope pedestrians will get back a space that has been dominated by the car.
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ANALYSIS
USES Private Area DIF Buildings ISSSTE Buildings University Buildings Housing Business Bikeway
A previous analysis was made from different nodes all over the city in which we considered: urban equipment, pedestrian density, bus routes density, connectivity potential and surrounding program. The selected site is located in one of the major avenues of the city: Tecnologico Av, where the context, the programs and users diversity as well as its deficiency in accessibility, mobility and the predestrian lack of importance, give cause to the next proposal.
PEDESTRIAN FLOWS Flows from ITQ
Flows from ISSSTE
External Flows
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USER INTENSITY
Concentration Eastern sidewalk Concentration Western sidewalk Concentration of Central sidewalk Joining Concentrations
WAITING AND STAYING AREAS Staying
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VEHICLE FLOWS
45 km/h 30 km/h 18 km/h 10 km/h
Places
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SHADOWS
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PROPOSAL The intervention has as its primary objective the recovery of six parking spaces to cede to the pedestrians transiting the area.
The second objective is the insertion of a parklet in those 6 parking spaces, which will result in the creation of a public space.
The final result of the intervention is a space that is intended to improve the physical conditions of the street, to facilitate pedestrian mobility in these.
The parklet consist in 2 public transportation stops on the sides and stay with a waiting area between them. Recycled and low cost materials are used such as reels, tires and pallets; pallets that serve as paths, street furniture and safety barriers, besides vegetation that provides shade to create comfort spaces.
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MASTER PLAN
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PARKLET FLOOR PLAN AND CONSTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS
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PALLETS ASSEMBLY FOR PLATFORMS AND PATHS 0.50m
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Wood pallets
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4 (3”) Wood screws
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF TYRES 0.25m
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0.45m 0.17m 0.17m 0.08m 0.17m 0.08m
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3 drill holes + ½ “ drill bit 3/8 "x3" galvanized screw + nut
2x 3/8 "x3" galvanized screw+nut 9 rope strips 60cm + 6 strips of 30cm for the network pattern 6 holes with drill + ½” drill bit armed with rope following the pattern established.
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3/8 "x3" galvanized screw + nut
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF TABLES
Bush sunscreen
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2xTornillo 3/8 "x3" galvanized + nut
18L plastic bucket 33cm high x 40cm diameter
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TABLES
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PROPOSAL RENDERS
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INTERVENTION
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EVALUATION
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WAITING AND STAYING AREAS AFTER
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PEDESTRIAN FLOWS AFTER
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Flows from ITQ Flows from ISSSTE External Flows
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PEDESTRIAN ROUTES BEFORE
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REFLECTION Parkletsqro faced since its beginning several challenges, no doubt, but the biggest challenge: social acceptance. The project designed was based on an urban analysis that yielded data on the location of the project and the needs that should cover. Notably, the project was part of an experiment because we didn´t knew what kind of reaction the people would have, plus the fact that Queretaro interventions like this are unusual. With the construction 1: 1 it is possible to evaluate the design, if it was positive or negative, how did the user adopts the intervention and how this public space could be possibly improved. As for construction, the large amount of manpower was vital for quick installation and in less than five hours users had a new public space. First posed as a design that could improve the flow in terms of dropping on and off passengers in bus routes, and provides a sitting area where users could interact and break the daily routine. One of the lessons learned was that in the designing process a barrier of vegetation and pallets to protect users in the stay was raised, but some people did not understand that the intervention was for them and decided to walk outside the sidewalk, in the street with the cars. This shows a lack of identity and suggests for a more legible way to approach users so they can feel owners of that space, besides that the path made near the sidewalk should be made besides the street. At first, the users curiosity encouraged them to know what was happening but they didn´t dare to cross the line, users decided to keep their distance from the sidewalk without intervening; many people questioned what happened, who did it and why, others simply watched, but in the end were "early adopters" using the furniture, writing reviews, as part of the intervention and thereby affecting other users of the environment, because without fear, took possession of the project. There was great uncertainty whether the efforts would achieve acceptance, if placed there remain, if it would be abused, whether it would be stolen. It was a pleasant surprise to learn that all this didn´t happened, the project was welcomed, respected and liked by users. Parkletsqro is one of the few pioneering projects in this city who intend to return to the same meeting places, places of coexistence in which users are the priority of the cities. We want to be a warning of what is missing in our cities, that progress from sporadic interventions to be important elements of urban plans for the design of cities.
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TEAM
Project Director
Project Co-director
Coordinador Pรกgina Web Web Page TeamCoordinator Leader
Graphic Language Coordinator
Graphic Edition Coordinator
Budget Coordinator
Construction Coordinator
Graphic Edition Coordinator
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ALLIES
Sponsors
Sponsors in kind
Allies
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