Decay or resilience of a modern avenue: W3 South Avenue
Brasília; W3 South Avenue; doors; degradation; urban dynamics.
The W3 South Avenue has been an important commercial center in Brasília since its opening until 1980, the decade in which the decline of W3 South began – in relation to the importance of the space and the number of people passing and shopping – due to factors such as the expansion of the commerce in the city, creation of shopping malls, space security, number of parking spots, among others. Since the beginning of this slow down process and consequent abandonment of W3 South, it is heard that the avenue lost space and almost did not see people passing through the road, and a reflection of it is perceived by the number of closed stores in this region. Several projects, like the avenue revitalization competition in 2002 and the model project for the requalification of the avenue in 2018, tried to bring an agenda about the need of a avenue revitalization and to adapt the space to improve existing conditions, being implemented on the 2018 requalification project for this purpose. Despite the implementation of the avenue revitalization project, it can be noted that there are still many closed establishments. Based on this assumption, the project aims to analyze which is the real situation of the W3 South Avenue currently, in terms of active and inactive stores, open doors and the direction of these doors, given that the commerce of the avenue, existing to two public avenues, the W3 and W2 South. To the research, a survey of the entire avenue will be carried out to arrive to a precise analysis of whether the doors are closed for reasons of closing establishment or if they face the other public avenue (W2), if the requalification carried out took into account the space current dynamics and if still there is an considerable number of people passing through the avenue.