Centro cultural Huaquillas.

Abstract

He intervention site is located in the urban area of Huaquillas where economic activities are developed to exchange products between the border of the countries of Ecuador and Peru. In its growth process as a canton it was focused on commercial activities so it is flooded with cultural, recreational and green areas services. Therefore, the design of a Cultural Center is proposed, which aims to strengthen the cultural identity of the canton and have spaces that articulate with its built environment. Rescuing architectural elements of Aboriginal culture. Being a building of a cultural nature, the formal-functional characterization is given by creating a building of lookout and protection as was the canton in times of border conflict, which is achieved by the verticality hierarchy of a tower that is attached to the rest of the needs program that the Cultural Center has. Also, within the cultural part is rescued the graphic design of tribal used by the Jambelí culture, intended as double facade that is composed by means of aluminum racks with the design of the corresponding tribal. In addition, the building stands out for having spatial flexibility in the multipurpose room allowing increasing user capacity and flexibility between the interior and the exterior through the use of movable pivoting doors. It is also considered that the building is integrated into the urban context with the interaction between the existing square adjacent to the land with the square proposed by this architectural project.