Cañales
Through active participation in the regeneration and creation of public spaces, this project encourages meeting, integration and neighborhood life and promotes the right of young people to inclusive cities.
A simple and concise intervention, based on the needs of the program and the preceding voices of the inhabitants: an underutilized land with some illegal invasions and garbage, where a soccer field was created by the community.
Two covered surfaces were consolidated into a new sports module, so that in the same space are offered the necessary facilities for the practice of various sports and outdoor activities, through the action of raising the level of one of the parts, the program of two units separated by an avenue, manages to function as a whole and provides universal accessibility to the complex.
The project creates a new landmark and pole of attraction for people of all ages, generating economic activity in the area, impacting the neighbors who before the intervention had fences that turned their backs to the street, and today have commercial premises or openings to the public space.
In a region of extreme heat and sun, shade is essential for the practice of indoor sports, in addition to ensuring thermal comfort, so the project integrates the shade of trees as natural cover to provide shaded areas for enjoyment and coexistence.
In this neighborhood there is also a history of recurrent flooding, so by raising the covered sports area, it is ensured that in case of flooding, the water reaches only the outer perimeter of the complex but not the interior.
The new civic plaza takes advantage of the fact that there were multiple social, civic and religious organizations that lacked a space to meet, to promote an open space that generates collective events and that the spaces serve for what they were intended for, but also for what the population will use them for.
The materials have withstood the weather conditions in their apparent and raw state.Materials with the future in focus, without finishes and that reduce maintenance in the long term, taking into account the availability of materials in the region.
The neighborhood was born in the 90's, with a deficit of cultural and sports spaces. In the property where the project is currently located, this space has always been planned, but it has not been built until now, so it is the first time that the inhabitants have a complex of these characteristics.
The city is a place where young people should feel welcomed, protected and cared for. Public spaces should encourage the creation of family and social ties that allow for this.
