Strategic Urban Design: Which design elements can improve habitability in residential projects?
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| Format: | texto |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Description: | This paper aims to provide designers and decision makers with practical tools aimed at improving their skills in the design of low-income housing projects through the practical knowledge and use of a series of key aspects relating to building typologies, environmental psychology, and urban forestry as a climate regulators. These practical tools, in turn, are conceived as agents for improving landscape and public space aesthetics, while simultaneously being capable of comprehensively improving the quality of life for the site's residents and visitors. In order to place the analysis of the potential of the tools offered, their applicability will be tested in a social housing project in the community of Esparzol, Esparza, in the province of Puntarenas in Costa Rica. This work will demonstrate the multiple benefits of urban forestry, appropriate building typologies, environmental psychology, and color psychology not only as climate regulators, landscape enhancers, and strategic symbolic components in public spaces, but also as key contributors in enhancing a sense of community capable of strengthening sustainable behaviors based on the perception of positive outcomes resulting from constant interaction with appropriately designed green spaces. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/1686 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rrevistarquis/article/view/1686 |
| Keyword: | Calentamiento urbano Arborización Psicología Ambiental Diseño Urbano Urban warming Urban forestry Urban design Enviromental Psychology |