The Paraguayo Independiente Civic Corridor constitutes the first application of the Urban Design Manual for the Historic Center of Asunción along one of the city’s most significant institutional and symbolic axes. Along this corridor stand major public and heritage buildings such as the Palacio de López, the Cathedral, and the Railway Station, configuring a setting where public space, memory, and institutional life converge. The project translates the Manual’s guidelines into a comprehensive public space intervention.

The proposal identifies six strategic sectors as significant urban pieces within the corridor. In each, context-responsive solutions are developed while maintaining a coherent design logic along the entire axis.

The project is structured around three main strategies:

Pedestrian Priority, through the redistribution of street space, the reduction of vehicular lanes, and the widening of sidewalks, strengthening universal accessibility, safety, and pedestrian continuity by prioritizing crossings and reorganizing parking.

Identity, through material and landscape strategies that consolidate a unified image for the civic axis, including surface leveling in historic areas, the incorporation of planted curb extensions, and the use of differentiated materiality that reinforces its institutional and heritage character.

Blue and Green Infrastructure, incorporating sustainable drainage systems, preservation of existing trees, and new permeable surfaces that improve water management, increase thermal comfort, and enhance the corridor’s landscape quality.

The project constitutes the first materialization of the Manual in the public realm and establishes a replicable intervention standard for other sectors of the Historic Center, consolidating the corridor as an axis where heritage, mobility, and landscape are integrated into a coherent and contemporary urban experience.