residential and commercial passages

a look at the spontaneous culture of Callao

Abstract

The present research work addresses the analysis of the spaces used daily and through graphic representation the spontaneous initiative of the population in making the city is valued, relating domestic uses, informal housing and places of supply of daily products, street commerce. . The case study is located in the Constitutional Province of Callao, a city that together with the capital Lima make up a large metropolitan conurbation. And it focuses specifically on the area of ​​the old town of Callao, which is made up of 239 blocks. Where the Central Market of Callao is also located, an area of ​​high commercial concentration where street merchants set up shop daily along the entire length of Avenida Sáenz Peña and Jirón Cochrane. In the same physical space, narrow passages appear within the compact blocks like arteries that open the way to small homes called Vipre: homes of priority and strategic interest.