Ciudad Canteras de Tunjuelo

Abstract

The unbalanced territorial growth that has been experienced in the city of Bogota for approximately 50 years, where very dynamic areas coexist with others that lag far behind in socioeconomic terms, usually located in the urban periphery. This imbalance is manifested in the insufficient supply of services, jobs, green areas, public and communal spaces, as well as land use, which is very unequal for the different areas of the city and which are not necessarily correlated with the location of the population.

The project embraces architecture as a solution to one of the many problems facing the city. The concept of the “15-minute city” was proposed by Carlos Moreno, Director of Science and Professor of Entrepreneurship of Territory and Innovation at the Sorbonne University in Paris (ETI).

This city concept goes in the opposite direction to the urban planning of the last 100 years that separated residential space from work, retail, industry and entertainment. Fundamental to this is decentralization, meaning that the city should have multiple centers to satisfy basic functions: living, working, shopping, physical and mental care, education and enjoyment. (Llorente, 2020, p.1).

The project seeks to implement and emphasize non-motorized and individual means of transportation that generate a decrease in CO2 emissions; plan spaces for permanence with universal accessibility and ensure that public connection spaces have physical characteristics that can provide quality, comfort and safety. The main elements of the ecological structure are articulated with the permanent public space to complement the network function of the city’s public space system.