Carrera 50: Arquitectura, cultura y tradición

The avenue 50, in the field of vehicular mobility, is an important road axis in the city of Barranquilla. Therefore, the District de-cided to undertake a project for the transformation of this race, building a road pair, which would allow to improve vehicular mobility in the city from north to south and vice versa, as well as the improvement and availability of adequate public space. During the year 2015 and 2016, a series of photographs were taken in which it was sought to capture the buildings that were in Barrio Abajo and that were going to be collapsed to start the Road Par of avenue 50. The objective of this article is Make a count of the architectural, historical, cultural and urban value that it has and that has had the avenue 50 over these decades, presenting a brief historical overview of Barrio Abajo and the avenue 50, presenting a series of photographs that reflect the buildings and / or old houses demolished in the construction of the road pair project and the transformation of the avenue 50 into a new axis of vehicular mobility and a cultural node for the city of Barranquilla.

• Autores: Hernández Ahumada, Paola Ivama; Rueda Pineda, Andrés
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2020
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/6256
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/11323/6256; https://doi.org/10.17981/10.17981/mod.arq.cuc.24.1.2020.07; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Carrera 50; Par vial; Valor arquitectónico e histórico; Cultura; Road pair; Architectural and historical; Culture
• Rights: openAccess
• License: CC0 1.0 Universal