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 intervention proposal.

The proposal is structured around the recognition of six strategic sectors—Palacio de López, the Police Headquarters, the Cathedral, Colegio La Providencia, the Railway Station, and the intersection of México and Mariscal Estigarribia—understood as significant urban pieces within the corridor. In each sector, context-responsive solutions are developed while maintaining a coherent design logic along the entire axis.

The project is organized around three main strategies:

Pedestrian Priority: street space is redistributed through the reduction of vehicular lanes and the widening of sidewalks, strengthening universal accessibility, safety, and conditions for permanence. The reorganization of parking and corner extensions improve pedestrian continuity and prioritize crossings, reinforcing the civic use of public space.

Identity: the intervention consolidates a unified image for the civic axis through material and landscape strategies that reinforce its institutional and heritage value. Surface leveling in historic areas, the incorporation of planted curb extensions, and the use of differentiated materiality contribute to a continuous reading of the corridor.

Blue and Green Infrastructure: sustainable drainage systems, preservation of existing trees, and new permeable surfaces are incorporated to improve the environmental performance of public space. These actions optimize water management, increase thermal comfort, and strengthen the landscape quality of the axis.

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