Diseño arquitectonico de centro turistico para el municipio de san gil santander

Abstract

The municipality of San Gil, Santander, recognized for its vocation toward nature and adventure tourism, reveals the need to strengthen its architectural infrastructure to consolidate tourist experience and territorial identity within an integral facility. To design a tourist center named TERRA GUANE aimed at contributing to the development and revitalization of tourism in San Gil through an architectural proposal that integrates sustainability, cultural identity, and landscape articulation. A project-based approach with a descriptive-analytical scope was adopted, based on the study of the urban, climatic, regulatory, and sociocultural context of the intervention site, supported by a theoretical review of sustainable tourism and territorial identity, which allowed the formulation of design guidelines, architectural programming, and bioclimatic strategies. The process resulted in an architectural proposal that incorporates flexible spatial organization, landscape integration, context-responsive materiality, and passive environmental comfort strategies, shaping a tourist center oriented toward enhancing visitor experience and social interaction. TERRA GUANE is conceived as an architectural contribution that, through its formal and functional configuration, seeks to stimulate tourism dynamics and strengthen the cultural recognition of San Gil at the departmental level, highlighting architecture as a tool for territorial projection and sustainable development.