No. 9 (2016)
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Item Hacia una nueva epistemología de la teoría urbana y arquitectónica(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Contreras Escandón, ChristianThis article is a theoretical reflection review of colonialism and modernity. Some authors called Latin American critical thought suggest that after the end of colonialism and colonial administrations, has established a worldsystem, where the coloniality and modernity are two sides of the same coin, and Western epistemology dominates over other epistemologies. With the background of this critical position, there is a need to review urban approaches from a decolonial perspective, and intends to discuss contemporary urban and architectural theory from the perspective of modernity / coloniality. In conclusion it arises move to specific areas of teaching urban / architectural design, in Latin American universities, the analysis of the crisis of legitimacy of modern knowledge and its global impact.Item El espacio público dedicado al ocio en el siglo XXI y la búsqueda de los oasis urbanos(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Ipiña García, OrlandoSquares, parks and gardens represent social meeting places dedicated to different recreational, leisure and outdoor activities. These should provide to users a moment of relaxation, enjoyment and carefree. At present, there are interventions more concerned with the physical aspects of the place than with the socio-cultural activities that take place in them. The lack of accessibility, security, offer and a knowledge experience have placed the public space at a distinct disadvantage with private spaces dedicated to satisfying the ludic activities. It is necessary the analysis and identification of physical, social and cultural factors to promote the spatiality of the users, through a playful offer and a sense of security and well-being with the objective of creating a lived experience in the perception of the users. A methodological proposal for theItem Construir la ciudad: modernidad y neoracionalismo entre el simbolismo y la funcionalidad. Una mirada desde Europa a la arquitectura de América Latina(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Vivas Ziarrusta, IsuskoThis article is intended to alert reflection, from what inquired about certain aesthetic constructive rationalism and international modern movement in architecture, concordant and discordant issues and disagreements, similarities and dissimilarities that do arouse our curiosity from the context of Southern Europe to Latin America. Our attention is so focused through a re-visitation that we would not strung mediating topics and sets out a methodology that synthetically considerations earlier that while platitudes reflect estimates serve to channel issues raised in the intercontinental 'translation' of models whose viability may be more variability in stiffness. Translation to be completed, not mimetic but problematised translation socio-cultural aspects significant beyond architecture but affect the construction and configuration of the city as functional and symbolic form. Examples peripheral and central city, public square and functional symbolic of neo-rationalism reallocation help us find correspondences with these capitals of the new-old world.Item Los Suburbios de Córdoba, España(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Vaquerizo, Desiderio; Murillo, Juan F.Way and beyond ideological mandates that have at any moment in time distinguished legal differences between the area falling within or without the city walls, history shows that ever since it was founded, Cordoba has surpassed the strict limits imposed by its walls to make up a functional unit in which it is impossible to understand the city sensu stricto without its extra moenia area, its suburbia: an ever changing reality whose first sign of transition centers on the network of roads. This in turn becomes a guarantee for access to a second outlying strip (lacking in urban functions but easily accessible and the area favoured by its inhabitants for their daily activities), and finally to the land on which the city’s economy, political power and prestige depended. The suburbs served as a mirror for the city.Item Evaluación sostenible de los planes directores de Quito. Periodo 1942-2012(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Peralta Arias, José; Higueras García, EsterGiven the great problem of expansion and poor living conditions of the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Latin American cities, a first quick conclusion could be that there were no sustainability criteria in the Urban and Territorial Planning to control this problem. However, in the case of the city of Quito (Ecuador), we find six Management Plans from 1942 to 2012, once evaluated, based on sustainability criteria established by J. M. Naredo and J. Fariña in the Sustainability White Paper in Spanish Urban Planning (2010), we concluded that the sustainability criteria have been present and were advanced compared to other Latin American Masters Plans in this period. Quito has maintained interest in being a planned city during its different historical stages of growth, unfortunately the reality is not sustainable, settling the problem on a lack of management plans has not allowed its effectiveness. Now it is necessary that a new vision of the city should incorporate urban management, knowledge of the capacity of the territory, harmonization with the landscape, and the establishment of preventive measures against natural risks and new challenges in the future Master Plans.Item Prospectiva del uso de suelo y cobertura vegetal en el ordenamiento territorial - caso cantón Cuenca(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Pinos Arévalo, Nancy JaquelineModels of land use change are a tool for understanding the dynamics in the territorial system. They help establish patterns of use change determined by biophysical, socioeconomic and spatial variables, explore possible scenarios and assess the influence of policies of land use and modify the benefit of land use planning. This paper deals with the study and analysis of land use changes between the periods 1991 to 2001, and projected to the year 2010 and 2030 by Landsat satellite imagery using Geographic Information Technologies.Item De la cita a la reflexión teórica(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Gómez, José HumbertoThis article is a summary of our recent research on an alternative way to study the theory of architecture by using known phrases and paragraphs whose didactic sense improve the apprehension of the main concepts and foundations of our discipline. Our outlook assumes that the extended analysis of an unique idea taken from its original prose may lead to debates and reflections with high theoretical and didactic value. So our intention is to approach these other little speeches, those other ways to say and teach adopting an open and fresh approach strategy to both content and theoretical exercise.Item Metodología para elección de estabilizantes químicos para bloques de tierra(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Guzmán, Sebastián; Iñiguez, MateoThe energy crisis in the 70's forced the countries around the world to look for ecological solutions that reduce the excessive energy consumption in the construction. As a result of that issue the construction systems based on soil reached notoriety. This paper tries to support the development of the earth construction contemplating mainly the environmental impact. Nowadays there are a large amount of chemical stabilizing products that can be used in earth constructions. However there are not enough papers that show a method to choose a chemical stabilizing for some specific conditions. This paper develops a methodology that could help to make an objective selection of a chemical stabilizing product based on a pondered qualification of parameters. These parameters are: compressive strength, impermeability, environmental impact and economy. Finally the methodology is tested in a region of Ecuador named Cuenca.Item Declaraciones consensuadas del seminario-taller: “Arquitectura Sostenible” un enfoque sobre estrategias de diseño bioclimático: caso Ecuador(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Alvear Calle, Alexandra; Hernán Sánchez, José; Tapia Abril, Emilia; Ordoñez Alvarado, Gabriela; Marcela Aragón, Cristian; Flores, Estefanía HerediaThis paper exhibits the results achieved in the 1st Workshop-Seminar “Sustainable Architecture: The Ecuadorian Case”, which was accomplished as partial branch of the main research project “Sustainability Criteria Assessment of Buildings in Emerging Countries: The Ecuadorian Case”. Through this event, researchers expect to develop an assessment tool to evaluate sustainable building characteristics focused in a bioclimatic approach. Identify climate zones allow a realistic interpretation of the bioclimatic concepts analyzed. Five case studies were expounded to the experts’ judgment in order to ascertain design strategies needed in early stages of building planning. The start points of this research process are the concepts that arise from the professional and academic experiences of the participants. As a result of this seminar a validation proposal is reached, which allows the corroboration of the research findings.Item Portadas mudéjares de palacios de Toledo(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Ortega, Agustín MateoEver since its recovery from the Arabs by Alfonso VI in 1085 and particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, Toledo became the city concentrating both Castilian political power and the individual noblemen holding it. In every respect the city became the scene of intense competition between these individuals, a competition that is visible in the building of private homes, the grandee’s material status symbol. The restrained ornamental and compositional lines regulating the buildings of this period, however, forced each palace to express its owner’s wealth by means of its façade, a consequence of the fascination exerted by Almohad architecture across the border, in spite of the ongoing confrontation, and its resulting influence.Item Regreso al hogar: poéticas arquitectónicas de resimbolización en la esfera contemporánea(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Aguirre Martínez, GuillermoThe following pages will be focused on those symbolical objects understood as a home, as an axis mundi, throughout contemporary arts and architecture. These sacred refuges allow us to embrace the existence inasmuch as they symbolize a new imaginary, a current view of the world from where the individual has the possibility to recover his own identity.Item ¿Qué le pasaba a la arquitectura moderna? reflexiones de un simposio de 1948(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016) Rodríguez García, RaúlOn October 11th 1947, Lewis Mumford dedicated his column “The Sky Line” in ‘The New Yorker’ to the architecture of the Bay Region Style. Mumford presented his ideas about this trend while expressing his ambivalence in how the United States were receiving the European architecture of the International Style. That article helped to trigger a symposium at the MoMA of New York. The head figures of the architecture of the moment attended this symposium: Gropius, Breuer, Saarinen, Chermayeff, Nowicki, Hitchcock, Johnson, Barr, Scully, Blake… and Mumford himself. The title of the symposium seemed ambitious: “What Is Happening to Modern Architecture?” Although the speakers did not come to an agreement, their speeches shed light on issues that many thought but only few dared to note: modern architecture did not convinced society and it became an elitist product only for architects. One decade later these were crucial characteristics for Robert Venturi.