Journal Issue: Número 2 (2013)
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Volume
2
Number
2
Issue Date
2013-02-19
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
1390-7263
Journal Volume
Volumen 2
(2)
Articles
Territorio, Ciudad y Arquitectura
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2013-02-19)
What is written in an academic space, in this case, the Faculty of Architecture, becomes what is thought and what is intended; in the reflections and their potential applications regarding topics related to territory, city, and architecture. ESTOA Journal No. 2 features several articles related to these two significant tasks.
Salud, ambiente y territorio: una visión integrada en un mundo globalizado
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2013-02-19) Gómez Orea, Domingo; Gómez Villarino, MaríaTeresa; Gómez Villarino, Miguel
The current model of development is economically globalist and territorially separated, according to a center-periphery pattern which accumulates activities and population in some areas while degrades others.This model is economic, social and environmentally unsustainable and energy inefficient, because it requires concentrated energy production, because it requires the movement of huge amounts of goods and it hinders the use of renewable energies that are usually located diffusely in the territory.
The article raises the implications of this model for the health and the benefits of the proposed alternative model would produce.
Against the previous one, the article proposes a polynuclear and networked model, with compact settlements of different level and size, multifunctional, covering all the space, connected by channels of relationship that provide them similar opportunities of access to centers, science, culture, leisure, etc.
Cronotopo urbano Cuenca de los Andes
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2013-02-19) Jaramillo Medina, Carlos
New readings of historic centres seek alternative methods and approaches to understand their natural, cultural and historical senses. These epistemological efforts want to overcome the positivist visions of the modern paradigm.
This paper seeks to understand the historic centre of Cuenca from other perspectives. To achieve this purpose we have consulted several sources postmodern and contemporary, including the suggestive work of Álvaro Niño, called "La Gesta del Signo. Hacia un semanálisis urbano". (The feat of the sign. Toward an urban semanalisis.)
This essay is divided into five parts: first of all theoretical and methodological references are presented to address the subject of study; then are exposed archetypes, vectors and urban phenotypes; and finally we raised this hypothesis: the historic centre of Cuenca can be considered an urban chronotope, it means, a natural, urban and architectural alternative of multiple and intertextual interpretation and associations of a Rhizomatic nature.
La ciudad imaginada Los territorios, lo imaginario y lo simbólico
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2013-02-19) Jaramillo Paredes, Diego
The various approaches that, over time, have been developed and applied to study the urban, have privileged the visible city, the matter, the physical universe; it mean, the city itself such as spatial geographic dimension (the ecology of living) and not the urban as an socio-cultural and anthropological dimension (the culture of living).
The analysis of the material conditions of the city while it is necessary, is not sufficient, since the city is also a stage of desires of evocations and dreams of its inhabitants who, on a daily basis and relentless way, are building one or multiple images of her. This article, which is part of a research project on urban imaginaries, deals precisely the reflection on the city understood as a place of cultural event and scenario of an imaginary effect, the symbols on it built by its own inhabitants; that hidden or invisible city which constitutes a complex network of symbols in permanent construction. In this framework, we focus on the notion of territory, conceived as a cultural construction and its relationship with the imaginary and the symbolic.
Lo complementario en la realidad
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2013-02-19) Luna, Verónica
The built space has evolved and those who occupy this space have not maintained the pace of this evolution. It is necessary to create new organs to extend our senses and our body to new dimensions still unimaginable and maybe impossible, it is necessary to re-signified the reality. Art and architecture may be the last resort of freedom that we have for the reflection of what actually happens with the already built and about the place that we are leaving to our children.The imagined city, the territories, the imaginary and the symbolic.