Malecon Ambalema

thesis in collaboration with Valentina Gomez Ambalema is a little town at the edge of the department of Tolima limiting the Magdalena river, in Colombia. A town known for his patrimonial colonial architecture values and especially for their columns in the facades or the little houses. The place at this moment has almost no connection with the river, is blocked by a lot of trees that prevent any kind of accesses to the river and to the town next to the river, beltran. There is little dock that communicates the city with beltran and with Cundinamarca, using a ferry. You may Also find fishing in the zone and several canoes for tourism, as well as little restaurants and commerce sites. You mas say That this is the only place that has life. As a solution The malecon de las mil y un columnas, to the riverfront of the town to the big river of magdalena. is conceived as a direct conection to engage the community in the re-activation of the '>http://site.The'> main goal of the project is to infuse a programmatic dependency between the new public space and the actual uses of the place improving them and creating new ones involving new activities. The design began reorganizing the place, but its not clearing it all. Just improving the uses that are available at the moment, the place, and the people who use them. All this to achieve the goal of the town, which is attract more tourism the composition are diagonal lines that are given in the place. With nodes of mobility, social activities, tourism and commerce, creating the spaces needed to the reinforcement. All joined in conjenction with the public space. The project is conformed in 3 zones, The first zone is the deck el retiro, where you can actually find the dock of ambalema. With services of transportation, tourism and commerce. The 2nd zone is la pola park, a place for social activities with direct connection with the plaza de bolivar and bringing all the people directly to the river board, also with a patrimonial treatment to the old train station. With a museum of ambalema and the tobacco, this product in the past improved the city, as it was a big exporter of tobacco and Platforms for several activities. The third and last zone is the juana moya park for sport activities and an artificial lake to recreation. A place to walk, run, ride bicycle, fishing, or simply meet with your friends to eat next to the river.