Arquitectura contemporánea en paisajes de valor. Procesos participativos en diseño y construcción en la comunidad de Susudel-Ecuador

Abstract

Vernacular architecture in Ecuador, especially in the southern highlands, has been affected by factors such as migration, which has not left communities abandoned, but has changed architectural typologies, constructive technologies and even different ways of life. In addition, the Government has increased civil works, especially focused on areas of health, education and safety, trials projects that are not integrated into rural landscapes in those that are located. The proposal presented in this article works an architectural solution contemporary that seeks to integrate in a sensitive way to the human environment, landscape and Susudel's assets; highlights a participatory process that involves the community in decisions of: design, spaces and the use of land as an ancestral construction technique; and poses a methodology with minga as the basis for construction. It also involves participation activation of institutions giving way to what has been called "institutional minga". The process of Design is in stages of constant feedback; the first made an approach theoretical-conceptual to the community, its social organization system and the needs of spaces for the development of community activities; the second, he raised an architectural program, zoning and construction techniques feasible to use; in the third one he shared with the community The results in a participatory workshop, receiving contributions that strengthen the proposal and evidenced important actors for the construction process. Design uses knowledge ancestral about materials and technologies, combined with contemporary contributions and a spatiality based on preexisting patterns and working with the Community. The balance sought is motivated by a sensitivity for the existing, as a source of inspiration for performances contemporaries that link the past and local culture. As in the project, in the construction proposes a participatory work executed in stages, involving institutions and Community