REHABILITACIÓN DEL ESPACIO ARQUITECTÓNICO URBANO: CENTRO COMERCIAL “PLAZA QUIL”

Abstract

The current concept of urban space in the city has developed over time, i.e., recreation areas have moved into closed buildings, such as shopping malls. Meanwhile, this type of construction has reinvented itself and strip malls are born. This concept integrates the Centro Comercial Plaza Quil. However, this mall is in a deteriorated state, about its facades, street furniture and sparse vegetation in a neglected state, causing pedestrians not to be attracted to visit and walk it. Thus, this paper proposes the rehabilitation of this building with the approach of a concept that integrates it with the surrounding environment: the Estero Salado. In order to achieve the objective of urban and architectural restructuring of the commercial building, an idea that comes from the analogy of red mangrove, which emphasizes the concepts break, processing and triangulation in the proposed design is generated to solve the problems in circulation and urban image.