I have the pleasure to share with you the words of honor that he received the draft of the "Livable Springs, developed originally as a study, and presented earlier in the "Holcim Awards" last year. I leave you with pictures and a brief overview of the project.
" Springs Livable Environmental Recovery of Guayaquil Salado."
Guayaquil is Ecuador's largest city. It has more than 3 million people, which are distributed in an area larger than the 45,000 hectares which tantamount to an urban area larger than Buenos Aires or Barcelona. And the population growth the city does not stop. Guayaquil is the largest center of economic development and as such, is always an attractive destination for those seeking to improve their income and quality of life. Most of these migrants come from within the country. Unfortunately for most of them, the conditions of life that the city offers are miserable. Sad to say, but has Guayaquil informal settlements that lack optimal urban development, up more than 40 or 50 years.
This project was born out of our concern for the relations that exist between urban and natural events that surround it. Being a port city, Guayaquil consider it appropriate to analyze how events affect the existing hydrographic nearby. Of these events stand the Guayas River and estuary Salado.
focus our interest in the process of occupation used by invaders that are installed on the banks of the estuary, it is these that have brought the worst consequences for the nature of that sector. The invaders often build their humble homes in a very informal, over the waters of the estuary. These houses are settled on stilts; that most mangrove trunks. The materials used for walls are from recycled wood and cardboard. Also, plastic sheeting and zinc found in the trash were rescued to build the roof. These are not built under the supervision of any calculator. Additionally, do not have any system for sewage, so that its inhabitants are forced to dump their human waste to the waters on which they live and sleep. For everything you explained and must include a municipal law in force, according to which the land arising as a result of the filling done under their homes, gives property right on the lot that they themselves have created. Usually, this stuffing is made of waste from other works, who have nowhere throwing their waste.
All this has caused the disappearance of the original banks of the estuary in the study area. There are cases of mangrove islands that have been wiped out, precisely because the process of occupation.
In my opinion, what is proposed as an intervention at the site must meet the following requirements:
- should provide a better place space as well as in the security sector requires people to live on.
- should allow the banks of the stream can be retrieved, so you can develop mangrove reforestation plan in them.
- Due to its proximity to the city, the stream can not be understood more as a natural area outside. Instead, the estuary must be understood and city as an urban space with natural features. Po Thus, the estuary will be scheduled activities for its residents, making so I understand the estuary as space itself and as something external and alien.
- Within the logistics of sustainable construction, would be a great success to the new solution not only benefit those who currently live on the waters of the estuary, but also to those living in adjacent blocks in land.
Met all those considerations together in a structure which we call "The Living Spring."
is a structure of 30 m. minimum length, with the typical structure of a pier, but oversized. In addition to serving for the berthing of boats and small boats, the dock floor is designed to load on the structure of the houses of the inhabitants of the estuary. These docks would be built to the fabric of the streets perpendicular to the shore of the estuary.
His columns have a separation of 5 meter, and the height of them have more than 5 meters high. This would allow 10 small houses to attach to the top of the structure of the floor spring . The only restrictions would be the inhabitants of the docks, with respect to the construction their homes, have to do with weight and volume. This last detail gives a tinge of "surprise element" to the project, as the final finish of the houses would all residents. We as architects would not have any security on their end walls. The spring floor
promote further activities related to the estuary, which should especially its inhabitants, who tend to be-mostly-seeking employment.
The spring floor not only provides benefits in the lives of its occupants. The intervention site has water and electricity. The spring floor provides such services to their occupants, connecting to existing networks in the city. However, the sector has not chosen to intervene with a system of sewage collection. ; therefore been considered to implement a small treatment plant sewage beneath the pier, next to its foundation on the ground. These small plants would have sufficient capacity to treat sewage from the houses located in front spring.
Finally, to comply with the transfer of homes on the lagoon towards the structures of the docks, large open areas on the banks would be reforested with native species of mangrove. This would help to better and prompt environmental recovery of the estuary.
Ultimately, improving the space, improve the infrastructure of the site, and performs the long-awaited recovery of urban event natural event. That's not the mission architecture. bring benefits to residents. Troubleshooting sound and beneficial way.
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