Browsing by Author "Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia"

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El monitoreo patrimonial a través de la fotografía aérea
(Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio, 2012) Zhindon Andrade, Pamela Nataly
The techniques of measures, diverse origins that are confused with those of civilization Human Emerged to facilitate trade and various human activities, they were also a stimulus for the progress of science and scientific knowledge, as well as cultural and social evolution ”37.
El paisaje en la perspectiva de la comunidad, identificando el patrimonio en Cuenca, Ecuador
(UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA (UMA), 2018) Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia; Auquilla Zambrano, Silvia Alexandra
Based on the Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscapes (HUL) issued by UNESCO in 2011 that recognises the crucial role of communities for heritage management on its context, this paper aims to depict how, through the integration of community, it is possible to identify assets that have not necessarily been considered so far in heritage conservation processes. This study analyses the collective registers of elements that characterise an adjacent zone to the historic centre named “El Ejido”. The results obtained allow understanding the nature of heritage elements in different areas and intends to become in a source to improve heritage management processes through citizen articipation.
Fortaleciendo capacidades locales para la conservación del patrimonio cultural
(2022) Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia; Vintimilla, Silvana; Jara Bernal, Andrea Carolina; García Vélez, Gabriela Elizabeth
En el centro histórico de la ciudad de Cuenca, Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad desde 1999, el Proyecto Ciudad Patrimonio Mundial (CPM) de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Cuenca ha impulsado hace más de una década, iniciativas para visibilizar el aporte del patrimonio cultural al desarrollo. Desde 2015, los proyectos de investigación en el barrio “El Vado”, buscan convertirse en procesos participativos para trasladar el liderazgo de iniciativas para la conservación del patrimonio cultural, desde la academia hacia grupos de actores ciudadanos y gubernamentales. Así, han surgido proyectos como el de “Huertas de la Buena Vida” que buscan dinamizar el uso y la conservación de la excepcional riqueza cultural embebida en las huertas de El Vado. A esto se sumó el proyecto ILUCIDARE (Horizon2020), que de formas innovadoras promueve el fortalecimiento de capacidades a través de talleres centrados en mostrar no sólo el valor ambiental de las huertas, sino también, su importancia sociocultural y una búsqueda de su sostenibilidad con un enfoque de economía circular y solidaria. Los resultados iniciales muestran un cambio en la perspectiva de los actores locales con respecto a su rol fundamental en los procesos de conservación del patrimonio
Heritage values protection, from the monument to the urban dimension. Case study: the historic centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca, Ecuador
(2016) Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia; Rey Perez, Julia
The notion of Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) has brought to discussion some of the principles established in early international agreements such as the 1972 Convention, where importance is attributed to a larger ample of assets and values. The HUL approach has been applied to the World Heritage Site Cuenca in Ecuador. It is recognised by values revealed on its settlement, buildings and culture but adequate protection is reduced to the second. This research aims to develop a strategy to integrate components beyond buildings including values that involve a wider scope of stakeholders. The research aims to identify eight elements; geomorphology, environment, hydrology, urban planning, historical cartographic review, land uses, symbolic and iconic images of the city, and finally intangible aspects. Those elements are then mapped as layers of information. This creates a supporting graphical tool to visualise studies which use information gathered from several sources and existing databases. The studies are combined and managed with ArcMap facilitating the combination (overlapping) of the different information layers. The objective is to develop an integrated tool that can be used by all stakeholders and facilitate social participation in heritage conservation at the urban level.
Historic urban landscape, an approach for sustainable management in Cuenca (Ecuador).
(2017) Rey Perez, Julia; Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia
The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology developed on the basis of the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) notion applied for the city of Cuenca in Ecuador. The identification of cultural values – among all the actors involved in the city – draws up a series of sustainable urban development strategies.
Integración de capacidades para la conservación de patrimonio urbano
(Universidad de Oriente, 2016) Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia
The 2011 Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach is one of the last debates raised on the light of the new urban agenda where not only culture but also multiple aspects contribute to heritage conservation and sustainable development. According to HUL, through the integration of different tools and stakeholders, it is possible to balance the inherited past while preserving to future generations what is assumed as valuable. In the case of Cuenca, its Historic Centre inscribed on the world heritage list since 1999, deals with tangible and intangible aspects of heritage on an isolated way and –in the best cases- managed by local governmental bodies in charge mostly of built heritage. This is leaving some gaps as the loss of several values in the cityscape and the lack of stakeholders’ involvement and participation, amongst others. To face this problematic an initiative coming from the academia shows already the intent to work on an integrated way to establish a contribution to the current heritage management. This research shows a practice of stakeholders’ involvement through activities developed in workshops. At the same time, it depicts how capacity building can be used for the purpose of urban heritage conservation through the development of participatory workshops.
Paisaje cultural en Azogues
(GAD Municipal de Azogues, 2020) Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia
Paisaje urbano histórico: la aplicación de la recomendación sobre el paisaje urbano histórico (PUH) en Cuenca, Ecuador. Una nueva aproximación al patrimonio cultural y natural.
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2017) Rey Perez, Julia Null; Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián; Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia
Este proyecto nace a partir de dos situaciones coyunturales clave: por un lado el desarrollo de la línea de investigación “Paisaje Urbano Histórico” (PUH) puesta en marcha por el Proyecto vlirCPM “Manejo y conservación de la ciudad Patrimonio Mundial”1 en el seno de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Cuenca-Ecuador; y por otro, el desarrollo de un proyecto de investigación sobre PUH financiado por el Programa de Becas Prometeo de la Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT). En el transcurso del año 2014 como productos principales de esta fase de la investigación se obtuvieron la tesis de posgrado de la Arq. María Eugenia Siguencia titulada: “Unidades/ Áreas de Paisaje Urbano Histórico para el Centro Histórico de Cuenca y su zona buffer” y el proyecto de investigación de la beca Prometeo realizado por la Doctora Arquitecta Julia Rey Pérez, titulado “La intervención en los bienes y en el paisaje. La aplicación de la Recomendación sobre el Paisaje Urbano Histórico (PUH) como herramienta de desarrollo sostenible”...
Pérdida de edificaciones en tierra en el Centro Histórico de la ciudad de Cuenca-Ecuador.
(Coordinación de Publicaciones y Difusión de FADA/UNA, 2016) Vintimilla Andrade, Silvana Tatiana
The Historic Center of Cuenca (CHC), Cultural Heritage of Humanity (PUH) since 1999, manifests its Outstanding Universal Value (VUE) by witnessing the exchange of human values in time reflected in its architecture, technology and urban planning. As for its technology, within the CHC, a large number of structures that contribute to the heritage value of the city still maintain the land as their primary material, however there is also a gradual replacement of ancestral land construction techniques with new architecture or interventions that come from the hand of contemporary materials little compatible. To test this hypothesis, based on the inventories of built heritage assets that have been developed in the city (the year of registration in 1999 and its update in 2010), it is intended through an exploration using geo-reference systems, identify those losses of architecture on land and expose its conservation level. The fields related to the materiality of the land will be considered from the inventory file and from this maps will be generated for the analysis in the two mentioned temporalities. The results are intended to show in percentage the buildings that maintain the land as a predominant material, as well as those in which this particular characteristic has been altered. The study through geo-reference maps will visually identify clusters and serve as a reference to the timing of appropriate intervention actions.
Planning and heritage integration in multilevel governance: Cuenca, Ecuador
(CRC Press. Taylor and Francis Group, 2021) Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia
While in the 90’s strategic became increasingly crucial for Spatial Planning, at the same time in the heritage agenda, the concept of Cultural Landscape was established to broaden the span of values and assets. Since then, during the last decades, planning has adopted methods depending on frameworks, demands and contexts. Heritage, meanwhile, has increasingly paid attention to heritage values in urban areas through the development of theories and practices. In 2011, UNESCO adopted the Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscapes, where heritage is a crucial element for sustainable cities’ development. In this sense, both Strategic Planning and Heritage Management have shifted, not necessarily ‘evolved’ towards methods where a common aspect is the crucial role of actors involved. Through the example of the city of Cuenca in Ecuador, this paper discusses the integration of heritage in the city’s planning and the involvement of different actors within the governance system.
Territorial exploration to implement the recommendation on historic urban landscapes for the development area of el ejido in Cuenca, Ecuador
(International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2020) Auquilla Zambrano, Silvia Alexandra
Cuenca in Ecuador is a growing city, weak in the face of the changes that the expansion phenomenon implies. The area of El Ejido was the first expansion area of the city with valuable samples of the arrival of modernity in the city. Nowadays, this sector is not exempted from the effects of urban growth and deserves to be managed through a proper management plan for its preservation. Degraded landscapes have been identified, modern heritage architecture shows clear symptoms of abandonment and low maintenance, causing the disappearance of historic buildings. Given these and other problems associated with urban development, Cuenca, like other cities, has taken the initiative of adopting the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) adopted by UNESCO in 2011, as a measure to safeguard urban heritage. In 2014, the implementation of this relatively new approach was first initiated in the pilot area of the Historic City Centre of Cuenca. This area was included in the World Heritage List in 1999 based on criteria II, IV, and V.However, aware of the significant heritage values embedded at El Ejido and its close urban and landscape link with the Historical City Center, the aim of this research is the implementation of the HUL's approach in a specific area located in El Ejido. Due to the clear difference between this sector and the Historical City Center, it is necessary to assess the first methodology used and work on a methodology that can be extrapolated to this sector and further on to other sectors of the city. To obtain the methodology for this area, it is essential to carry out a territorial exploration in cities with similar characteristics to Cuenca that are implementing an approach based on the study of the Historical Urban Landscape Recommendation.
The historic urban landscape practice in Latin America, Cuenca as a case study
(CRC Press/Balkema, 2018) Vintimilla Andrade, Silvana Tatiana; Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia; Vintimilla Andrade, Silvana Tatiana
Nowadays, based on the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscapes (HUL), the need to implement efficient tools to ensure urban conservation, is crucial in the heritage agenda. In Latin America the change of millennium brought about a dramatic urban expansion that exceeds the capacity of historic centres, especially those included on the World Heritage List (WHL) bear values that can be threatened. The HUL notion which is raised in light of new architecture inserted in historic contexts, tackles a broad understanding of urban heritage and encourages the use of four groups of tools and a six-step action plan. Cuenca in Ecuador provides a framework on the use of such tools through meetings, projects and publications, while initiatives in Latin America manifest implementation processes. This study reports the results of a comparative analysis between the methodology used in Cuenca and the rest of cities in Latin America. This provides insights of a first evaluation of case studies in this region and their input for further application. © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, London.
The HUL approach to create heritage management tools in the latin american city of Cuenca-Ecuador
(Springer Link, 2019) Siguencia Avila, Maria Eugenia; Rey Pérez, Julia; Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián
The implementation of the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape for the city of Cuenca (Ecuador) pursues an understanding of the complexity of the city’s heritage. Cuenca was inscribed on the World Heritage List (1999), and there is currently an attempt to condition the urban development of the city for the future. For 2 years, natural, cultural and human resources in Cuenca have been studied, mapped by the universities, and a consensus, through participatory planning and stakeholder consultations, has been built. This process accomplishes the goal of protecting the attributes in which the city values are embedded and at the same time can be related to steps 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 from the six-step action plan for the HUL implementation, provided by the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation (UNESCO 2011; Veldpaus and Pereira Roders 2013). These steps have led to a vulnerability assessment of the city related to socioeconomic stresses as well as the drafting of different recommendations for action for the ongoing city development in Cuenca. Finally, after the university-driven initiative, the last steps are expected to be implemented and led by the Municipality of Cuenca. The project itself serves as a good practices manual on how to apply the six steps of the recommendation approach. This paper outlines the processes involved in implementing the steps while also reflecting on the wider significance of the case of Cuenca in the Historic Urban Landscape Discourse