Paula Riffo Acuña
Revitalization of the merchanized pier. UHasselt (Belgium).
CALDERA AS A NEW PUBLIC SPACE
CONNECT THE PEOPLE WITH THE IDENTITY OF THE CITY
When we talk about heritage or what to consider as heritage, it always generates debates because, for many people, the fact that preserving a building is always finished refers to something more conventional. Therefore, the industrial heritage is left completely aside because it has other architectural characteristics, which are rarely appreciated by people. The industrial heritage as the conventional one is a unique reflection of an important period in the site where is located. In some cases, those constructions generated the development of many cities, lifting traces of the big activities or memories about the important period for the citizens. Because of that, the abandonment of these structures generates an empty space, and the connection with the community decreases over time being forgotten.
According to this, it was chosen a mechanized pier as a work site, because between 1952-1980, was booming in iron mining extraction, so that period was when six mechanized piers were constructed generating an industrial landscape along the Chilean coast. The mechanized pier in Caldera is a clear example of how this structure helped in the development of the city but somehow until now, it didn’t receive any intention to be recovered.
For this, it’s proposed an industrial park that searches for the activation of the abandoned site generating a new public space in the city but also it will bring back the memory of the former function of the mechanized pier, giving different spaces for activities that people can spend time on it. At the same time, it proposed a masterplan to make a connection with the whole city and the site and gives a projection of how this intervention could help in a new development of the city as the construction of the mechanized pier did, in economic, cultural, and social terms.
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