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Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián

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1973-07-24

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0000-0002-0616-938X

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57219000644

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Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
Universidad de Cuenca, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Cuenca, Ecuador

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Ecuador

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Facultad de Arquitectura

La Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo creada como tal en 1961, se ha convertido en referente académico en Ecuador, dentro de su área de estudio, en educación pública de alta calidad con programas de grado y posgrado. La facultad es una instancia privilegiada en el desarrollo de saberes que configuran el mundo de la arquitectura y el urbanismo, basada en un modelo de gestión proactiva y ágil con mejora continua. Su cuerpo docente es altamente calificado para liderar procesos innovadores de enseñanza-aprendizaje e investigación, en actividades de vinculación y servicio en sectores público y comunitario, con énfasis en grupos vulnerables.

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Astudillo Cordero

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Jaime Sebastián

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Don victor and the maintenance booklets: a strategy to stimulate the resilience of the vernacular heritage of southern Ecuador
(International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2020) Cardoso Martinez, Fausto Adrian; Barsallo Chavez, Maria Gabriela; Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián
Among the most powerful reasons for the loss of heritage buildings in Ecuadorian Andean cities, the lack of valuation of these buildings by their owners has been persistently noted. Faced with this weakness, the value of the property is considered only for its exclusive real estate value which exposes the demolition to old buildings for speculative purposes.The gap established between the technical valuation of buildings by “experts” and the valuation of these by their owners or inhabitants, has not been possible to overcome for many reasons: The diverse interests, the economic needs of the owners, the difficulties to activate maintenance actions in a more spontaneous and simple way, and the progressive disappearance of people who know how to do it.Understanding the communication of ideas, values and procedures as a powerful tool to mitigate the distances between diverse actors, the CPM project of the University of Cuenca, has developed a series of tools aimed at maintaining the heritage buildings of Cuenca and its region. For this, the characteristics of local architecture, the colloquial language, the tradition of local graphic expressions and other forms of popular dissemination have been considered, resulting in a compendium of 11 documents that includes a cartoon with the name "The Adventures of Don Victor" and 10 thematic booklets in which problems are identified and basic solutions for heritage preservation are offered.
Maintenance booklets for built heritage, applied in the Historical Center of Cuenca - Ecuador
(Universidad de Cantabria, 2020) Achig Balarezo, Maria Cecilia; Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián; Barsallo Chavez, Maria Gabriela; Cardoso Martinez, Fausto Adrian
The Latin-American cities declared by UNESCO World Cultural Heritage have a widespread problem due to the lack of maintenance of its vernacular architecture, which has caused and could contine to cause irreversible lossesof their heritage buildings.
En busca del equilibrio entre transformación y conservación. Inserción de proyectos contemporáneos en ciudades patrimonio de la humanidad. El caso de Cuenca, Ecuador
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2018) Rodas Vera, José; Rodas Vazquez, Catalina Monserrath; Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián
The transformation of cities can be understood as their physical mutation induced by their societies, but transformations do not always coexist harmoniously with their surroundings. This article intends to make an approach to the transformation of the landscape of "El Ejido", and to propose basic guidelines to implement a strategy of insertion of new projects in environments with heritage landscape value, in order to achieve a balance that favors the relationship between city Historic, contemporary city and landscape.
La participación social en el mantenimiento del patrimonio: la experiencia de Susudel
(Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, ICOMOS México, 2014) Cardoso Martinez, Fausto Adrian; Koenraad, Van Balen; Garvin Perez, Anja; Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián; Moscoso Cordero, Maria Soledad
In rural areas, the conservation of the built heritage faces several difficulties that involve technological, social and economic aspects. The possibility that heritage is an agent of social cohesion and economic development, and that in turn generates local maintenance initiatives, are key issues discussed in this article. This work shares the results of a systematically planned and executed work, which took three months of preparation and five days of execution, carried out by the students and professors of the University of Cuenca, taking advantage of all available technical resources, and promoting the resurgence of an ancient practice of collective work, known as minga. Maintenance actions were carried out, in around fifty peasant buildings, work that opted for a change in the perception of the community towards heritage. Although the community has not replicated a similar experience due to the difficulty of obtaining economic resources for its organization, the experience is positive because there are small-scale actions and a shared consideration that this has been a starting point for future actions.
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
Incidencia de la altura de las edificaciones en el paisaje urbano histórico: caso el ejido en la ciudad de Cuenca
(2018) Cordero Maldonado, Silvana Carmen; Peñaherrera Wilches, Maria Isabel; Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián
The new Urban Historic Landscape (HUL), approach seeks to control impacts and manage sustainable development of historical places, the main objective of this research project is to identify and assess points or important areas in El Ejido, which generate important visual relations among the historic city, El Ejido, and the natural and built environment, creating a set of guidelines aimed at their conservation and protection.
El paisaje ecuatoriano. La legislación nacional en contraste con las políticas nacionales e internacionales de paisaje
(2015) Wijffels Anja, Louisa Maria; Moscoso Cordero, Maria Soledad; Cardoso Martinez, Fausto Adrian; Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián
The geographic location of Ecuador together with its wide altitude range as well as volcanic activity related to the Andean uplift, has granted it a privileged natural landscape characterized by its high biodiversity and exceptional view-sheds. Ecuador has three World Heritage Sites that are located along the glacial valleys and mountain chains of the Andean Mountain Range, where pronounced slopes and constantly changing land use makes them especially vulnerable to landscape alterations. Ecuadorian landscapes are exclusive testimonies of human interaction with the natural environment, giving way to cultural landscapes with prominent historic value. This paper pretends to make some recommendations to develop policies regarding the protection of Ecuadorian landscapes. The aim is to contribute to the debate by reflecting on the current national policies and regulations regarding Landscape and comparing them with the state of art in the region and the rest of the world.
From the Intervention of a Vernacular Heritage Structure in Oña – Ecuador, to the Improvement of the Cultural Landscape
(Springer, 2024) Achig Balarezo, Maria Cecilia; Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián; Barsallo Chavez, Maria Gabriela
The San Francisco de Oña neighborhood is in southern Ecuador and is included in the national heritage list. About 20% of the heritage buildings are in an advanced state of deterioration, mostly abandoned and without maintenance. This article shows the intervention in one of these vernacular heritage buildings through a so-called Maintenance Campaign, which is an initiative developed by the University of Cuenca and is based on the recognition of values and the participation of different social and institutional actors through collaborative work, known as “minga” in the Andean world. The research was carried out based on two method-ologies: a) the preventive conservation methodology according to ICOMOS 2003 and b) the participatory methodologies according to RedCIMAS (2015), which allow for active interactions and mutual learning among its actors. The University of Cuenca developed twenty maintenance projects in the San Francisco de Oña neighborhood, although due to the Covid pandemic it was only possible to inter-vene in one building. This case study turned out to be very interesting, because not only was a heritage building rescued utilizing traditional constructive techniques, but also an urban project by the Municipality of Oña was halted, which would have led to the destruction of part of this building by transforming a narrow dirt road into a wide road for heavy traffic. If this project had been carried out, heritage in Oña would have been affected in two ways. First, one of the buildings with the highest heritage value of this neighborhood would have been lost and second, a drastic change would have occurred in the historical cultural landscape of the San Francisco de Oña neighborhood.
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”...
Discursos y experiencias para la gestión del patrimonio
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2017) Astudillo Cordero, Jaime Sebastián; Luzuriaga, Jonathan; Ullauri, Marlene; Brazzero, Mario; Paredes, María Cecilia; Achig Balarezo, María Cecilia; Tommerbakk, María; Ost, Christian; Cardoso Martínez, Fausto Adrián; Pauta Calle, Víctor Fernando; Barzallo, Pablo; Jouan, Pierre; Ávila, Esteban; Cardoso, Fernando