the “spitting tiles” It’s even the deadly traps that Bogotanos suffer from. This is how César might say it, a citizen who ran to catch a SITP bus, stepped on one of these tiles and fell to the ground. He ended up with a broken fibula and an eye injury.
Well, this Friday the Bogota Mayor’s Office together with the Planning Secretariat presented the new offer Public places directory Who orders to build better platforms and fix existing ones with problems like “spitting on tiles”.
In line with the Land Management Plan (POT), this guide aims to ensure that the public and private designers responsible for its design, as well as the entities responsible for its creation, maintenance and management.
“The Public Space Guide will help us make the city green again, take care of it and Avoid problems such as loose tiles that cause us inconvenience Bogotanos today”, explained Secretary Maria Mercedes Jaramillo.
This translates into a design specification that all contractors, builders or managers of public spaces must comply with and implement. “It is very important that public space reflects who we are and what we want to be, and reminds us of that Our roots and showcasing our heritage And our cultures.”
What does the guide say?
The guide indicates that the horizontal planes of public spaces intended for pedestrian circulation must be built according to the following conditions:
- The surface must be made of non-slip materials without resulting in a high degree of roughness that interferes with the movement of wheelchairs and cars and ensures the continuity of pedestrian movement.
- The roof must be built on an underlying structure or bed that responds to the loads and characteristics of people moving over these spaces, in order to avoid subsidence or deformation.
- The method of construction should not result in open joints that cause displacement, distortions that could generate trips or disturbance in the movement of pedestrians, water leakage, washing of the base and therefore subsidence, flooding, splashing risks, instability, and situations of danger to the movement of people, the surface must be homogeneous to ensure safe and unimpeded movement.
Therefore, the guide is an integrative approach to heritage not only tangible but also intangible, expressly referring to the cosmogony of the Muisca people, Originally from the Valley of the River Funza (or River Bogota), its systems of knowledge and the forms of use of the territory must be taken into account when intervening in places sacred to them, which must also be sacred to all Bogotanos.
For this purpose, doc The design of public spaces gives educational value And symbolic, which must be reflected in its realization.
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