Diseño de co-estudio como equipamiento de apoyo educativo para zonas rurales del cantón Cuenca

Abstract

Co-Study is an individual and collaborative learning equipment to improve the study conditions and development of the students. The project design is conceived as a flexible, versatile and reversible space for different activities through the use of furniture and a modular construction system. In this way, the architectural proposal of the Co-study project is designed for rural areas of the Cuenca canton of the Sierra region as an emerging construction with the objective of helping and supporting the students' learning; it can be used by the community to carry out other activities. The research begins with the exploration of the concepts of study and collaborative work, the context of rural education in Ecuador, the modular construction systems and the materiality of the Sierra region. Then, the co-study and coworking case studies are evaluated to determine design criteria. Likewise, the selected site is also analyzed to understand the context in which the project is located. Finally, the architectural design is proposed as a reversible project with minimal impact on the rural area to recover the natural landscape or give another use to the building. In this way, the equipament seeks to improve education through the generation of flexible spaces dedicated.