CERCADO DE LIMA. PERUHOW TO REGENERATE A NON-PLANNED SETTLEMENT THREATENED BY ANTHROPIC RISKS

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CERCADO DE LIMA. PERUHOW TO REGENERATE A NON-PLANNED SETTLEMENT THREATENED BY ANTHROPIC RISKS

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HOW TO REGENERATE A NON-PLANNED SETTLEMENT THREATENED BY ANTHROPIC RISKS

Margen Izquierda del Río Rímac (MIRR). LIMA CERCADO. LIMA, PERU.

80.301 hab.

480 ha.

2.8 ha.

PABLO MUÑOZ UNCETA

MUNICIPALIDAD METROPOLITANA DE LIMA

INSTITUTO CATASTRAL DE LIMA

PROYECTO CIUDADES FOCALES

ATALIR y ATIARRES (local recyclers associations)

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Basketball court “El Montón” Basketball court

The city of Lima is located on the western coast of South

America, on a desert strip between the Pacific Ocean

and the Andes. Lima is situated in the medium and low

part of the valley formed by the Chillón, Rímac and Lu-

rínrivers, which come down from the Andes to the Paci-

fic Ocean. The region is part of the circum-Pacific seismic

belt or The Pacific Ring of Fire, one of the most active

seismic regions of the world. This region has generated

high magnitude earthquakes with relatively short recu-

rrent periods.

Lima District is the district to which the Historic Centre

of the city pertains but it also includes neighbouring

areas such as the Barrios Altos (High Neighbourhoods)

or the MárgenIzquierda del Río Rímac (MIRR: Left Ri-

verside of the Rímac River). The latter is the area of the

District occupied by invasions of housing from the be-

ginning of the 60s and which still holds today dumping

grounds from this period. This area, therefore, is very

vulnerable to seismic activity due to the transformations

people have made in the surroundings.

The River Rímac watercourse has been considerably

modified because of the urbanisation process, and the

seismic vulnerability of Lima has increased due to the

significant rise in population over the last years, often

occupying with precarious buildings lands which are not

suitable for construction.

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CERCADO DE LIMA. PERUHOW TO REGENERATE A NON-PLANNED SETTLEMENT THREATENED BY ANTHROPIC RISKS

This is the case of the place known as “el Montón”

(the Heap). This is the last surface landfill of the MIRR

which remains practically intact. It is an accumulation

of stratified waste classified as public space by the Mu-

nicipality and which, in some areas is still object of land

invasions. The settlers, when digging to gain a piece of

land to inhabit, often face the emerging of gases cau-

sed by waste decomposition. In addition, the ground is

absolutely heterogeneous in its composition and often

unstable, which should exclude or limit residential plan-

ning, or in the case of being inevitable, makes necessary

the use of specific and adequate constructive methods

to avoid structural problems. Due to its zoning as public

space the Municipality built three basketball courts in

the upper partfour years ago. Despite this it is still an

unused and conflictive space of the city.

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CERCADO DE LIMA. PERUHOW TO REGENERATE A NON-PLANNED SETTLEMENT THREATENED BY ANTHROPIC RISKS

The city of Lima is developing the “Rímac Park-Route

project” (PVPR), which plans the integral development

of the city through a project which improves traffic ma-

nagement and the environmental conditions of the Rí-

mac River. The project also intends to implement sport

facilities, parks and public and commercial infrastructu-

res along the river’s new watercourse. The Metropolitan

Municipality of Lima also sees this as an opportunity to

incorporate the sanitation of “el Montón” to this urban

renovation of the River Rímac.

The MIRR is directly affected by the implementation of

this project, specially the over 600 families who live on

the riverside in conditions of high vulnerability and who

would be evicted from their current homes.

In this political context, in which the regeneration and

transformation of the city is being attempted, the fo-

llowing question arises, HOW TO REGENERATE A NON-

PLANNED SETTLEMENT THREATENED BY ANTHROPIC

RISKS?

1. METROPOLITAN SCALE INTERVENTION

River Rimac

Historic Centre, Square of Armas

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Area of Reflection

Intervention Area

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OPPTA proposes intervention in the Lima District site

by taking advantage of the juncture of the “Rímac Park-

Route project” (PVPR), to be implemented from the end

of 2011 and which will be developed over 4 years under

the management of the companies LAMSAC (Peru) and

OAS (Brazil) and the coordination of the Metropolitan

Municipality of Lima.

1. METROPOLITAN SCALE

The PVPR plans to improve the road development and

the connectivity of different districts in Metropolitan

Lima, as well as the development of a park, “a green

lung”, and facilities on a metropolitan scale (sport, re-

creational and commercial) on the riverside of the River

Rímac.

On this scale, we propose the development of strate-

gies defining the green areas and facilities mentioned,

taking into account both their metropolitan scale and

the capacity of the intervention in hand to regenerate

the MIRR.

2. DISTRICT SCALE

On this scale, the strategies developed will aim towards

the regeneration and development of the MIRR, reflec-

ting on which interventions on public space can contri-

bute to its social and economic development. Defining 2. DISTRICT SCALE INTERVENTION

PVPR affected area

“El Montón”

Area of Reflection

Intervention Area

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strategies which redefine recycling and solid wastema-

nagement activities as economic engines of the area,

and developing a relocation plan for the homes affected

by the PVPR and those of high risk around the “el Mon-

tón”.

The main objective of the intervention on this land must

be reducing the risk that it generates in its surroundings,

towards which sanitation and landfill stabilisation pro-

cess should be planned, as well as uses compatible with

its characteristics.

3. DETAIL SCALE

In Panel 3 an area of the intervention area will be deve-

loped on a district unit scale (MIRR), which may be cho-

sen by the contestant depending on the general appro-

ach of their proposal.AREA OF INFLUENCE OF “EL MONTÓN”

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