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    Analysis and Proposal to Retrofit the Traditional Construction Systems (Earth) of the Former San José School, Cuenca, Ecuador
    (Springer Netherlands, 2019) Piedra Landivar, Victor Cesar; Achig Balarezo, Maria Cecilia; Caldas Freire, Victor Marcelo; Salazar Silva, Indira Yajaira; Cardoso Martinez, Fausto Adrian
    The objective of this research is to analyze the main traditional construction systems used in the heritage buildings of the city of Cuenca, which was included in 1999 in the UNESCO World Heritage list. These construction systems are adobe, bahareque, clay brick bearing walls and wooden structures for tiled roofs, portals and floors. The techniques are applied to the former San José School, a century old heritage building located in the historical center of Cuenca. The present article will emphasize the analysis and retrofit of the adobe, bahareque and clay brick walls. The former San José School currently requires a maintenance and structural retrofitting plan due to its state of deterioration. Its exceptional architectural value dates back to its designer and builder, the German Redemptorist Brother Johannes Stiehle, who was renowned for promoting the use of mixed construction systems of fired clay bricks and raw earth. Its technological value is based on the presence of several materials that mark the different construction stages of the heritage building. The applied methodology focuses on the evaluation, through the use of assessment and diagnosis cards as well as non-destructive prospecting, of the state of conservation of the bearing walls, its structure, its plastering, culminating with a study of the floors, ceilings as well as murals and panel paintings. The research concludes with an intervention plan that proposes the structural retrofitting of this heritage building, recognizing the richness of its traditional construction systems to guarantee its conservation for future generations.
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    Common mistakes during the intervention in vernacular heritage architecture
    (University of Cantabria - Building Technology R&D Group, 2020) García Vélez, Gabriela Elizabeth; Vázquez Solórzano, Wilson Marcelo; Caldas Freire, Victor Marcelo
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    Innovation and diversification of brick, Susudel – Ecuador
    (CRC Press y Taylor & Francis Group, 2020) Rodas Aviles, Tatiana Elizabeth
    The Later-Eris project, is developed within the framework of the World Heritage City Project of the University of Cuenca. This research focuses on the Susudel parish, located in the South of Ecuador, where it is observed that the majority of artisan producers offer them a single type of brick, known locally as a panelón (standard measurements 28x14x7 cm). This fact triggers a high competitiveness, accentuates the mono-production which affects an over-supply of an almost unique product and marketing at unsustainable prices, as this phenomenon unravels processes of unfair competition between producers. The objective of research is to innovate and diversify the production, from the floor covering brick, taking advantage of the potential and resources of the place, working alternatives with identity, based on the riches of the region. This is how, from the identification of the problem, a methodology of approach with artisans is proposed, which, more than the understanding of the productive dynamics and use of the cladding brick, promotes the conservation of the artisan production capacities, true tangible and intangible heritage in the study area. Additionally, the result is the innovation of designs and shapes, the characterization of the raw material and a joint work with artisans. Finally, a manual is generated that serves as a tool for the producers in order to be used as a reference.
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    Las innovaciones tecnológicas como respuesta a las debilidades y aprovechamiento de potencialidades en el sistema constructivo tradicional del adobe
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2015) Rodas Aviles, Tatiana Elizabeth
    The lack of detailed official technical information, the shortage in the workforce, the ignorance of the potential of the use of traditional materials to offer a quality architecture in our environment have put at risk of disappearing these ancestral knowledge that would allow us to guarantee the Conservation of Ground structures In the Historic Center of the City of Cuenca, adobe is one of the most used construction systems in buildings considered of heritage value, therefore knowing the forms of traditional production, interregional variants, functions and properties of its components, we they will allow to understand their behavior, potentialities and weaknesses from the technical, economic, social and environmental point of view. In the same way it is important to identify the innovative and improvement constructive experiences to analyze and compare the characteristics between traditional and improved systems. In this way, it will also be analyzed to what extent these innovations enhance or not the advantages of the ancestral construction system, and to what extent they solve their disadvantages.
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    Metodologías participativas para la gestión del patrimonio cultural edificado en el sur de Ecuador
    (CLACSO, 2023) Tenze , Alicia Margarita; Herrera Montero, Luis Alberto; Cardoso Martinez, Fausto Adrian; Caldas Freire, Victor Marcelo
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    Prospecciones en muros de tierra para generar propuesta de recuperación de color, Cuenca, Ecuador
    (FAADU-UMSA / PROTERRA, 2017) Salazar Silva, Indira Yajaira
    This paper deals with the technical process and the systematically recorded results that, in the diagnostic phase, allowed to identify the chromatic that the different historical moments reflected in the earthen walls of the old San José School, a heritage asset located in the Historic Center of Cuenca, Ecuador. Without being decisive, the declaration of this city as Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 1999 by UNESCO, underlines a greater commitment of the cultural actors to protect the material elements that are part of citizen identity, as is the San José School. The main objective consists of the proposal to recover the original color scheme of the property, which includes the adoption of traditional techniques with earth colors. This proposal is the result of a methodological strategy that includes a historical study and retrieval of photographs from city archives, specific interviews, and the execution of coves of prospecting in different architectural elements to identify the chromatic historicity of the edifice.