Centro de atención al habitante de calle en el municipio de Bucaramanga

Abstract

The following grad work project possesses the name “Homeless shelter for commune 15 from Bucaramanga” it surges as a response to the poor health and hygiene condition in which this kind of population lives and that for different social problematic reasons they don’t have access to a worthy life quality. In the municipality, the problematic can be seen in the commune “Centro” like a consequence to the high pedestrian flow during the day, and the loneliness of the streets in night time by the conglomeration of comercial and industrial activities. Said center provides dormitory service, personal hygiene and medical and psychological assistance with define a series of spaces that will be designed based on determinants in the implementation environment, apart from generate spaces of capacitation that contribute in the process of reintegration of said population. In the design process there will be taken into account factors linking the architectural project with the environment, lighting, ventilation, and the proper classification of the user in factors such as gender and age. The above is developed under urban, functional, formal and technical components taking into account the permeability as a conceptual principle in the design process for hygiene conditions in which users come; under the principles of brutalist architecture and the handling of materiality that allows greater durability of the architectural element.