San José_ RISE: Reactivación Inmobiliaria del Centro Histórico de San José a partir de Plataformas de financiamiento alternativas *RISE (hace alusión a su significado en inglés crecer, aumentar, reactivar)

The greatest challenge of the Historic Center of San José has been to recover residential use and
promote itself as a tourist destination. However, the abrupt, unexpected and devastating event of
the world pandemic by COVID 19 altered all the planning for the urban revitalization of the Historic
Center of San José and incorporated an additional element to the problem of its reactivation and
that is the absence of one of the few dynamic elements that remained active, such as public and
private officials, deepening underutilization, outsourcing, informality, and the deterioration of their
general conditions.
Sanitary measures, confinement, teleworking, reduced hours for social activities and the proposal
for a new center for public officials known as "Government City" challenge the need to create
innovative models to reverse the trend, strengthen the character as an attractor, create an offer that
allows officials to recover, incorporate a residential offer and promote culture, heritage, history and
equidistance under different conditions and address the entire national tourist offer.
The project demands research on the ideal models to articulate: improvements in the conditions of
infotelecommunications and connectivity, recovery of buildings in residential formats, variation of
the real estate offer associated with teleworkers and incentives for proximity and economic location
that together manage to consolidate an innovative proposal to reverse the current condition of
deterioration and abandonment.
Urban tools, management tools, municipal incentives, financial banking, communication,
technological facilities, among others, will be necessary to analyze as elements that, when
articulated, can generate an attractor effect.
The real estate and residential supply needs to be analyzed to identify the possibility of having
percentages of digital nomads, associating new residents with work centers and ensuring that it has
an impact on the formal economy and not translate into open application platforms. Likewise, create
a new differential advantage to live near the work centers despite teleworking. This will require
mapping with GIS tools the labor centers with the highest demand and associating potential
buildings to be reused and potential nearby residential and service offers.
The project seeks to take advantage of important advances and lines of research developed in
projects corresponding to the San José Technological Campus, incorporating the potential of new
forms of economic organization linked to the "Social and Solidarity Economy" and the
"Collaborative Economy".

Diseñar una estrategia de revitalización urbana para el
Centro Histórico de San José a partir del uso de herramientas financieras y
tecnológicas alternativas que coadyuven en su sostenibilidad y la reactivación de
la inversión inmobiliaria.

Arquitectura y urbanismo: Ciudad territorio y paisaje / Ingeniería en computación:
Ingeniería de software / Administración de empresas: Entorno y gestión de negocios