Alternativa de intervención urbana para el barrio san Rafael en Bucaramanga (Santander)

Abstract

Accelerated growth of cities in Colombia has been evidenced in recent decades. Despite the benefits related to the development of urban centers, there are also worrying problems related to this progress, such as unplanned urbanization and population displacements, causing changes in land use and the organization of activities such as Residential and economic. The planning instruments to tackle these problems come into play here, within which urban renewal is contemplated, which seeks to regenerate or modify buildings, equipment and even the urban structure to improve physical conditions of a given area. Taking into account this problem, the main objective of the present work was to propose an urban intervention through a rehabilitation treatment for the improvement of the quality of life in the San Rafael neighborhood in Bucaramanga (Dept. of Santander). For the development of the study, a qualitative, exploratory, observational and experimental methodology was used in the selected area, using the urban inventory as the main tool for information gathering. From the urban inventory carried out in the San Rafael neighborhood, the industry and related activities were evidenced as main activities, however, this area could be used to potentiate the residential sector, since a better public space and better permeability to the large surfaces it has. Interventions in the city must be carried out with dignity and quality.