Building urban revitalization through the Life Polygon

The major challenge of the Historic Center of San José, Costa Rica, has been to recover residential use and to enhance itself as a tourist destination. The COVID 19 pandemic altered the planning established to revitalize the Historic Center of San José and deepened its underutilization and deterioration. In addition to this problem, there is a decrease in the number of public and private employees circulating in the city, considering that a significant percentage of them are teleworkers. The project develops research, in alliance with the Local Government of San José, about suitable financing models for the physical recovery of buildings, and incorporation of residential formats in cohousing, coliving, coworking and coparking, responding to new realities in the demand, requirement of teleworkers, changes in the tenure model, digital nomads and openness to new users. The mediation of incentives and technological resources that facilitate financing under an accessible and collaborative model is proposed as a fundamental resource, being the mediation between investment partner, potential users, building owners, financing mechanisms and governmental sector the main virtue of the technological platform, which seeks to support the governance model and the sustainability of the initiative.