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Urban Project for the Sustainable Planning of the Estero El Salado Basin
Finalist in the Third international competition for urban development and social inclusion projects of the Development Bank of Latin America CAF 2013.
Sensitive to the impact that disorderly urban growth has had on the El Salado estuary, having reduced it to 12% of the original size of the wetland and therefore the irreversible consequences of this fact on our climate, our quality of life and the biodiversity in the bay, we propose a project to reorganize the basin that serves hydrologically and therefore environmentally to the estuary from environmental and social criteria, these being the basis for the regeneration of value to urban land.
In this way, the project proposes strategies that range from the creation of a network of regulatory vessels that function as temporary flooding and infiltration parks, systems for transferring development rights, schemes for creating plant microtransects with public uses on the contributing roads. of silting and pollution to feeder streams and equipment for the collection and recycling of medium-scale garbage such as furniture and appliances.
The vision we share is a city full of public spaces, with abundant vegetation and a landscape capable of generating wealth to the land that is currently destined for irregular urbanization. We imagine that water can be seen as the most precious resource for generating economic and social value, not as a problem that generates flooding.
The project offers the opportunity to change the dominant paradigm of the predatory tourist and real estate city for a new city scheme for all based on the sustainable use of runoff water as a means to generate landscape, social cohesion and consequently value to urban land. And it proposes three fundamental strategies:
