CASA DEL PUEBLO CENTRO DE INTERPRETACIÓN CULTURAL PARA PUERTO VILLAMIL

Abstract

The public space is where different groups of people interact, appropriate and use it for recreational, resting and cultural activities, creating identification or sense of belonging from whom they live in it (Cabrices, R., 2011). These spaces are classified according to the different dynamics, both individual and cultural, that promote the culture and identity in the society. These spaces have been lost and abandoned in the cities. Nowadays, it is evident the lack of interest by the residents to come to public spaces, diminishing increasingly the interaction between people. The main factors that have caused this change are: insecurity, lack of previous studies for their locations, and design of spaces that prioritize the pedestrian traffic. This is common between the inhabitants of big cities, preventing in them the development of a sense of belonging which propitiates their immersion in a cultural black hole. This means that the citizens feel lost, as if they did not belong anywhere and nothing belonged to them. For the development of this thesis, we use a methodology based on the abstract and conceptual analysis of the different meanings of a word, and its relation or comparison with other terms from different areas. From the concept of the word ‘contain’, we perform analyses of movement both conceptual and spatial using analogies with the black holes and the dynamics of the volcanic lava, respectively, which allow to develop the architectural language to be used during the project design. As a result of this process, a journey that creates a fingerprint in the space and leads to a central or focal point is obtained. By using this methodology in Puerto Villamil-Isla Isabela, we locate the central point where the center of cultural interpretation that allows the development of the fingerprint or identity of the inhabitants with the island is implanted.