Proyecto urbano ambiental con énfasis en el patrimonio, borde noroeste del centro histórico de Tunja, parque central Santander & centro administrativo San Francisco.

Abstract

This research project (degree monograph) is presented to the Tunja Architecture Faculty of Santo Tomas University as a degree requirement, in order to obtain the Architect tittle, it is named Tunja Northeast Edge Historical Downtown Environmental Urban Project with Heritage Emphasis. This proposal develops the contemporary architectural style into a historic district with a central park and an administrative facilities that have as purpose exploring and determining a suitable and respectful intervention model within the public areas of the city historical downtown and, which is the most important and fundamental of its context according to our point of view: its relationship between the territory natural heritage and cultural one. This approach must be a main concern for the intervention and it will create strategies that allow exalting, protecting and preserving in order to stablish an urban and architectonical operation to be good, useful and pertinent to the society around it.

This monograph is developed using 5 frameworks that break down information, analysis and professional approaches processes that show the most relevant characteristics of the elements which put together this research paper.

I. the starting framework lets know the selected topics for this project and also to the people involved in the making and development of it.

II. The theoretical framework shows the paper content and explains the methodology used to recognized positive and negative elements within the intervention place in order to direct the ideas towards the correct interpretation of the historical district development and evolution.

III. The legal framework highlights the urban standards and government plans which were taken into account for the fulfillment of the national, state and city current law.

IV. The development framework allows to demonstrate the integral result of the environmental, urban and architectonical components through blue prints, fronts and cuts just like the used solutions to suppress or cut down the land damages which prior theoretical processes dazzled in the field work.

V. The final framework shows the changes made in the city northeast edge historical downtown because of the designed intervention and besides it helps to point out one of the routes in order to generate a continuous and respectful progress for the area through the valuation of the pre-existences as a requirement to link past and present.

Finally this Project presents the conclusions and displays a possible future image of the city northeast edge historical downtown according to the proposed strategies and the professional vision carried out by the members of this group, they are backed up and mentioned in highlighted scientific and academic papers.