Public space in the streams

As a result of the great urban fire that occurred in the city of Valparaíso in 2014, the streams became important environmental axes for threat control. Additionally, climate change has affected cities, the streams have been heavily degraded, mainly due to anthropogenic factors that exist in the interior, increasing and diversifying the threats and the risk factor.

The following research aims to develop a public space based on the resources of geographic landscapes, such as a stream, for the reduction of the risk factor and environmental restoration. Developing from the field of action that offers the study of architecture, landscape and territory, the design and planning of a micro-basin inserted in a city like Valparaíso requires addressing the problems set out above in a holistic and comprehensive way, enhancing the role strategic that the streams maintain due to their environmental and landscape value, recognizing the ecological variables in the formulation and resolution of projects with sustainability criteria in the use and management of the natural environment. Although there are various theories and axes of action applicable in a landscape intervention, each territory is singular and unique, which determined that during the process the character of public space was glimpsed as a fundamental factor, understanding natural resources and the risk present in the context. In this sense, the public space project in Quebrada Jaime, gives relevance to the recognition of the landscape as an integrating element, which manages natural resources and proposes a solution to reduce the risk factor.