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15 años desde la inclusión de Cuenca en la Lista de Patrimonio Mundial
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-01) Koupermann, Jonathan
There are fifteen years since the declaration and it is time to open a dialogue active and proactive among all who work or we link with the heritage as citizens and public and private institutions. It is very favorable that Cuenca would be alive as it is: a heritage city of elements, spaces and cultural experiences that not only respond to important needs of its citizens, but which reveal its soul and spirit.
A framework to understand the design guidelines of smart and sustainable urban open space
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2026-01-26) Sharif Zami, Mohammad; Qwaider, Sara; Al Ramadan, Baqer M.; Hassanain, Mohammad A.
Smart and Sustainable Urban Open Space (Smart-SUOS) are essential for improving the quality of life (QoL). They serve as hubs for leisure, social interaction, civic activities, and environmental benefits. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the types, design elements, and guidelines necessary to design Smart-SUOS. The study aims to formulate a framework to understand the design guidelines of Smart-SUOS. To achieve the aim, a critical review of the existing literature was carried out. The analysis of the secondary data gathered 13 essential landscape design elements (LDEs), 9 smart services and technology integration, and 10 design conditions (DCs) that were utilized to formulate a design framework of Smart-SUOS. The validated design framework included an additional LDE, 2 smart services and technology integration, and 2 DCs. The framework also includes a series of challenges and measures to overcome the challenges for the successful design of Smart-SUOS.
A la sombra de las ciudades en flor
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2017-11-24) Moreno Pérez, José Ramón; Iglesia Salgado, Félix de la
The contemporary city is informed by a habitability divided between the modes imposed by the devices of "biopolitical democracy" and the shared elaborations of "terrible communities". This produces a shear in its configuration, which install behaviors that try to articulate this unbearable present emptiness in our lives. In four movements, we want to report of “common places, weapon, temporalities, dynamizations…” that treat of that a world appears. We are in the presence of a repeated transit along the construction of modern urbanity, which now has definitely reached -in the complete realization of its original model- become a great "interior". As celebrates that moment of joy and amazement the title of the article, the "prisoner nomads" would now be engaged in the construction of their narrative and arguments.
Abordando la informalidad urbana desde el taller de diseño: Mejoramiento del espacio público en barrios populares, Bogotá
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2020-01-20) Hernández García, Jaime; Sierra, Martha
The article presents and analyses the results of a research project and pedagogical action on the exploration of socio-spatial dynamics in informal settlements in Bogotá and the proposals of public space developed, in a summer international design studio with students from Colombia and México, in which members of the community also took part. The workshop sought to encourage students' reflection on popular public space and to understand the difficulties and responsibilities when facing the informal city. In addition to the cultural exchange with students of different countries that facilitates a more complete and complex vision of the discipline. The article argues the importance of these tasks for the training of future architects and the contribution to the thinking and development of large areas of our Latin American cities.
Acerca de arquitectas argentinas, de concursos y su representación en la prensa (1947-1967)
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2026-01-26) Méndez, Patricia
From a gender perspective, this documentary study systematically analyzes the participation of women architects in architectural design competitions convened by the Central Society of Architects (SCA) between 1947 and 1967. Using a documentary methodology, the official records of the professional association were reviewed and compared with journalistic coverage by the newspaper La Prensa during that period. It was possible to identify awards, as well as paradigmatic cases of their protagonists. The results revealed and made visible nearly two hundred awards won by women in architecture, but also highlighted the limitations of the gender bias imposed by both the official entity and the editorial practices of the time. By restoring the full names of the winners and acknowledging their participation in official disciplinary competitions, this research contributes to the construction of a more equitable architectural historiography and collaborates with the expansion of recognition of women’s contributions to 20th-century architecture.
Acrónimo para una arquitectura orientada por objetos
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2019-07-26) Muñoz Escalante, Mauricio
The main purpose of this essay is to promote a reflection on architectural objects apropos Graham Harman, Manuel DeLanda, Bruno Latour and other philosophers’ loosely associated theory about objects on actual culture. It presents how architecture objects were already present from a modern previous perspective, as well as its intrinsic object-subject relation, and then it analyzes how a flat ontology, as proposed by Object Oriented Ontology, changes paradigms such as the whole as sum of its parts, and the correlation between human beings and objects, among others. It supports the idea that the existence of objects despite its relations produces an endless amount of images or appearances, while the object-in-itself remains inaccessible to us. Accordingly, it finally speculates that an acronym containing such multiplicity would also be impossible.
Actualidad del patrimonio en Cuba, reflexiones sobre desarrollo sostenible y conservación preventiva
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2017-12-29) Bello Caballero, Luis; Muñoz Castillo, María; Soto Suárez, Milene; Morcate Labrada, Flora
Recent changes in Cuba’s economic and social policies foresee implications in local heritage sites. Current challenges determine the need to examine opportunities for sustainable development within the new socioeconomic context. In this regard, scholars analyze the positive and negative effects of today’s circumstances. The analyses exposed in this paper start by noting the links between culture, sustainable development, and preventive conservation (first section). The latest as a new paradigm within the heritage field that articulates the social, economic, and environment pillars. The second section addresses the main issues of Cuban heritage sites; as well as the challenges that both, integral development plans and management plans still have to cope with. Considering the topicality of Cuba’s heritage, the third section exposes possible alternatives that can contribute to sustainable development by referring to actions undertaken in the Academia.
Los agentes biológicos como elementos articuladores del paisaje urbano de Cuenca. El antes, el ahora y el después
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-01) Cordero Cueva, Paula
To understand the relationship between the landscape and biological agents in Cuenca during the past 15 years, it is necessary to carry out an analysis of the past, the present and the future in the history of this landscape. Living beings are agents of change and transformation of the image of the city, the plants and animals depend on us and vice versa. Unfortunately, to consolidate and grow, the city of Cuenca is losing green areas and the connection between the biological corridors that sustain the landscape.
Ahorro de agua y reutilización en la edificación en la ciudad de Cuenca, Ecuador
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2013-10-18) Baquero, María Teresa
En este estudio sobre el ahorro del agua y reutilización en la construcción aplicado a un proyecto de vivienda multifamiliar en la ciudad de Cuenca, Ecuador, es analizada la problemática del agua y la construcción en la actualidad. Luego se realiza una investigación sobre el consumo real de agua potable en la ciudad así como la situación de este recurso en el mundo. Posteriormente es explicado el sistema de reutilización de aguas grises provenientes de lavamanos, duchas y lavadoras que se utilizará en el proyecto, y finalmente se lo aplica en un anteproyecto que consiste en dos torres multifamiliares que contarán con 348 habitantes, lo que permitirá un ahorro de agua y reutilización a mayor escala que si se realizara en una vivienda unifamiliar.
Algo más que un lugar: la localización como estrategia de proyecto en la arquitectura contemporánea
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2017-11-24) Santamarina Macho, Carlos
The bond between architecture and place should not be limited to a description of the situation (where and when), but it can also imply the taking of a decision about the way (how) and the reason (why) for this relationship which is sometimes, by itself, able to make the projectual act have sense. This paper reflects, through case studies, on several ways of addressing this topic from the point of view of the contemporary architectural design, and on the emergence of new mechanisms for representing, communicating and making it comprehensible. The paper also aims to overcome the idea of site plan as a mere technical tool, claiming for its new role as main ideological instrument for the development of the architectural projects.
Algunas reflexiones sobre Cuenca, Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad
(2015-01) Carvallo Cordero, Honorato
Already fifteen years after the honorable designation of Cuenca as Cultural Heritage of Humanity, It is long enough to make a space and, between us, meditating on how we are walking and assuming this enormous responsibility, because, while it is an honor, it is also a commitment of enlargement and respect to this city. Obviously, the world is waiting for fulfillment of the valuable trust that it has given us.
Altares y tianguis: Una apología del espacio abierto en Sudamérica
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2017-11-24) Baros Townsend, Mauricio
If there is a place in Spanish American cities where you can find a perfect symbiosis between the heritage of Native American religion and the Catholic religion is in the main squares of many of these cities, that despite the changes, they allow convergence of ancestral activities as trade with religious festivals that take place in the same space. What this paper aims to examine it is how these spaces were formed on supports various activities that allow them traslucir through a rich heritage that is not only Spanish, but also Muslim and indigenous.
Análisis de tres metodologías en la enseñanza del urbanismo
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2018-10-26) Hidalgo García, David; Santiago Zaragoza, Juan Manuel; Arco Díaz, Julián
Teaching methodologies of the subjects of architecture and urbanism have evolved in the late years along with the advances endorsed by specialists in pedagogy and psychology. The number of their followers is increasing. However, it is difficult to find, within these fields, studies that deepen taking into account the opinion of the agents that means the main role in these methodologies, i.e.: students and lecturers. The objective of this article is to know the opinion about the subject of Urban Development Project, lectured in the H.T.S. of Building Engineering of the University of Granada, using the three most important methodologies of university teaching: masterly lesson, flipped classroom and project-based learning. Later it should be related these data with the improvement of their competences through the results obtained through its evaluation.
Análisis del ambiente interior de una vivienda contemporánea en el área rural de Cuenca
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2014-01) Bustillos, David; Idrovo, Daniel
This document seeks to make a technical calculation and analysis to verify the conditions of thermal insulation of a house chosen haphazardly, located in the rural parish of Sayausi, in the sector of Gallo Cantana, of the city of Cuenca in Ecuador, to 2800 m.a.s.l., and verify the compliance of the thermal regulation that sets Ecuadorian construction standard nec-11, according to the climate and microclimate of the town. We will make an analysis of the thermal insulation, solar protection, ventilation and natural lighting, to subsequently verify its compliance and propose, for each instance, solutions to improve them.
Analysing the transformation of Commercial Centres with respect to the process of urban development in a city: identification of relevant parameters and sub-parameters
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2026-01-26) Sarkar, Sanghamitra; Nag, Sanjib
The transformation of commercial centres is a common feature of current urban development processes, where modern typologies of commercial centres are generated alongside traditional markets, disrupting the urban fabric of Indian cities. This disruption has led to lifestyle changes and altered the character of public places. The existing literature has not adequately explored this issue from an urban design perspective for Indian cities. To predict the future direction of transformation, a holistic study of this phenomenon is imperative. This paper aims to theoretically identify the relevant parameters, sub-parameters and variables that influence this phenomenon in the Indian context. Furthermore, it seeks to establish a theoretical framework based on their inter-relationship for examining similar transformations in contemporary urban development processes.
Antecedentes, rol y desafío de la digitalización del patrimonio arquitectónico
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2013-10-18) Santana Quintero, Mario
No doubt, the use of digital tools in the documentation of the architectural heritage has revolutionized the way in which historic places are identified, disseminated and virtually valued. However, these new opportunities bring new challenges to guarantee scientific accuracy and the reliability of the information used to document and protect the heritage sites long term and thus to ensure that these records are transmitted and are maintained for future use. This contribution is not only intended to underline the challenges, but also to offer options, taking into account the notion of efficiency requirements and how to capture and disseminate the knowledge the of heritage goods. These objectives will be achieved by taking as starting point the needs of the place from a comprehensive and participatory approach, focused on the importance of the information to understand the meaning and integrity. In this sense, it is essential also to evaluate the radius of deterioration caused by disturbances/threats and potential risks to these cultural resources. In relation to cultural heritage, the emphasis of this work is given to historic buildings and archaeological sites.
Aplicación de la metodología Landscape Character Assessmenten el estudio y tratamiento del paisaje urbano
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2019-07-26) Alba Dorado, María Isabel
En la actualidad asistimos a una gran riqueza de aportaciones teóricas y metodológicas vinculadas al estudio, valoración y actuación en el paisaje. Entre ellas, prevalecen las de carácter parcial, válidas exclusivamente para determinados paisajes, predominantemente naturales o rurales. Esto ha dado lugar a una situación de desvalimiento teórico, conceptual y metodológico a la hora de abordar aquellos paisajes de carácter urbano, lo que plantea la necesidad de introducir un giro en esta tendencia que tenga como objetivo abordar de una forma más profunda el estudio y tratamiento de estos paisajes. Cuestión, esta, que viene además reforzada por la promulgación del Convenio Europeo del Paisaje (CEP). El presente artículo sostiene la hipótesis de que es la metodología británica Landscape Character Assessment la que resulta más reveladora en este sentido. Así pues, en las próximas páginas nos detendremos en analizar esta metodología en profundidad con el objetivo de conocer más acerca de ella, valorar su adecuación a los postulados que el CEP establece para, en último término, demostrar su validez a la hora de avanzar en la definición de un corpus teórico y metodológico que contemple el estudio y tratamiento en profundidad del paisaje urbano desde su especificidad.
Aportes desde la teoría del actor red para implementar la aproximación del Paisaje Histórico Urbano
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2017-12-29) De Urbina, Amparo
This article presents contributions from the actor-network theory to the recommendation of the Historic Urban Landscape; all this from the understanding of historical centers as urban heritage, where the urban phenomenon transcends the physical dimension of the city. This theoretical review considers the landscape as central and articulating concept; this implies recognizing and strengthening the social component understood from the construction of relationships. The actor-network theory is useful because it shows the relational patterns between actors - human and non-human - in order to make them visible.
Aprendiendo a Mirar
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2018-10-26) Abreu Plata, Eneyda; Giménez Baldrés, Enrique
Through the development of the Saber Mirar Program, students are expected to induce the necessary skills to read and interpret the city and the territory through the use of the resources available on the network. It is about addressing the inquiry about the urban reality itself while doing the same with other remote and unknown. Various strategies of approach to urban events are used; with an unconventional didactic of work that makes intensive use of the Information and Communication Technologies. The experiences already developed have been oriented to the undergraduate students of several formative levels. In addition to the objective of developing analytical instrumentation in the field of Urbanism, the program also aims to encourage a taste for research and help identify and formulate the topics of interest on the problems of our cities.
Arquitectura histórica y Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial: una simbiosis necesaria. Las zonas de Patrimonio Cultural de Mérida, estado de Yucatán-México
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-06-01) Rivero Canto, Raúl
The objective of the article is to explain and analyze the necessary symbiotic relationship between the conservation of historic architecture and preservation of intangible cultural heritage. The case study selected for this research is the set of zones of cultural heritage of the city of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. The paper includes the theoretical, historical and regulatory frameworks that highlight the characteristics of intangible cultural heritage, the development of the city and the laws and regulations in historic architecture. An important aspect is the identification of popular catholic piety as representative cultural manifestation of the studied areas. The article analyzes each of the areas of cultural heritage to show how historic architecture favors traditions survive while the intangible manifestations strengthen the conservation of buildings in which they occur.

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