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The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2019
In recent years attention has been given to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, causing cl... more In recent years attention has been given to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, causing climate change, without recognizing the importance of urban form. In Latin American cities, spatial dynamics, urban fabrics and territorial distribution, among others, are not always considered when plans are developed. The cities of Ecuador, particularly Cuenca, show processes of dispersion as a result of their own growth disconnected from urban centers, which is evidenced by the high rate of use of the private vehicle per capita and implies a high consumption of fossil energy and environmental pollution. Additionally, urban fabrics affect the functioning and social dynamics of a city and therefore have a direct relationship with planning. With this background, this project seeks to identify and categorize different urban fabrics in the city of Cuenca using a visual methodology that takes into account street and block patterns; patterns of parcelization and land use; building form, scale and placement on lots; street and parking design; and typical relationships between "green" and "gray" landscape components. As a result, eighteen urban fabrics were identified in the city, with different challenges and opportunities for sustainability. The produced knowledge allowed the generation of sustainable and resilient planning recommendations and opened a wide field of possibilities for future research.
Casas y Conjuntos nos presenta los resultados de investigación en torno a un tema sustantivo en l... more Casas y Conjuntos nos presenta los resultados de investigación en torno a un tema sustantivo en las ciudades latinoamericanas: la vivienda social. La propuesta reflexiva que orienta este trabajo, indaga acerca de las políticas públicas habitacionales, los proyectos construidos, su impacto en la ciudad y en la calidad de vida de sus habitantes. En el libro, se comunica con gran lucidez, la complejidad sistémica de los diferentes aspectos que inciden en torno a la vivienda de producción gubernamental y que a la vez, se despliegan de ella. Al mismo tiempo, se enfatiza la urgencia ineludible de reformular las acciones en torno a la vivienda social desde una perspectiva cualitativa y sostenible.CuencaSerie Ciudades Sustentable
Urban Morphology
Architecture, and particularly the architecture of housing, has been critically important in the ... more Architecture, and particularly the architecture of housing, has been critically important in the history of humanity; however, its analysis has not often addressed all of its complexity. There is a need to understand the built structures as a fundamental component of urban form and their historical evolution as the result of a dialogue with the city as a whole. In this context, and to contribute to this analysis, this paper discusses how urban tissues and residential types emerged during the twentieth century in the city of Cuenca (Ecuador). A two-stage qualitative and exploratory methodology was used: a) the identification of urban tissues related to residential uses that, jointly with the compilation and analysis of historical maps, allowed the understanding of the city’s overall evolution; and b) the documentation of residential building types through the analysis of databases and historical archives that provided 221 case studies. From this, seven residential types were defined:...
Journal of Sports Sciences
This article delves into the scientific knowledge of the formal and typological values of a sampl... more This article delves into the scientific knowledge of the formal and typological values of a sample of traditional rural architecture from the twentieth century in the province of Azuay, Ecuador, which has remained hidden or has simply been little known and rarely assessed with objectivity. It is believed that the results of this research will serve to regain a way of making architecture that is being lost. In addition, the building and design principles studied can be used in teaching and learning processes. These works of architecture, which were promoted for shelter and protection, ultimately show a constant search for beauty, geometric relationships and mathematical proportions that are universal; although, perhaps the inhabitants of these areas are not aware of the enormous contribution that their own architecture can make at an aesthetic and formal level.Este trabajo se inmiscuye en el campo del conocimiento científico de los valores formales y tipológicos de una muestra de arq...
Modernidad y vanguardia en américa latina 1930-1970.: II Jornadas Internacionales de Historia del arte y arquitectura (HiSTAA), 2017, ISBN 978-9978-14-437-4, págs. 95-122, 2017
Universidad-Verdad, 2021
El análisis y comprensión de la incidencia de los factores socioeconómicos, de percepción y d... more El análisis y comprensión de la incidencia de los factores socioeconómicos, de percepción y de mesoescala urbana sobre los modos de movilidad de los niños y niñas en edad escolar es fundamental para fomentar el uso de modos más sustentables. Este estudio explora la relación entre factores socioeconómicos, de percepción y de mesoescala urbana sobre los modos de movilidad diaria de niños y niñas en edad escolar (6 a 12 años) en la ciudad intermedia de Cuenca (Ecuador, América Latina). Se utilizó la herramienta Random Forest, como método de aprendizaje automático supervisado, para clasificar los modos de movilidad en: “caminar”, “autobús” y “automóvil”, y para identificar la importancia de los factores en cada modo. Los datos se obtuvieron de una encuesta de movilidad realizada en hogares de Cuenca en el 2019. A pesar de que buseta es un modo de movilidad usual para escolares, no pudo ser considerado en este estudio ya que no se contemplaba en la encuesta original ut...
Ver desde otra perspectiva es lo que pretendemos en el libro La Ilusión de la Ciudad que es la re... more Ver desde otra perspectiva es lo que pretendemos en el libro La Ilusión de la Ciudad que es la recopilación de investigaciones, preguntas, sueños y desvelos, de más de cien personas que participaron en LlactaCamp1.0, en marzo 2014, y que, cada día de su vida, están pensando y actuando, desde una mirada nueva, a favor de una mejor ciudad. LlactaCamp1.0 nos permitió conocernos, aprender, compartir, reflexionar y sobretodo darnos cuenta de que hay mucha gente interesada en transformar el espacio que habitamos.
En este libro podemos entender y disfrutar desde una experiencia de vida hasta una pequena gran i... more En este libro podemos entender y disfrutar desde una experiencia de vida hasta una pequena gran idea, donde lo mas interesante es el aporte multidisciplinario que contiene, sin la necesidad de ser arquitecto y/o Urbanista para su comprension. Simplemente se necesita ser ciudadano activo, donde la principal herramienta es la razon. Los escritos desarrollados en estas paginas muestran una narrativa que nos induce al dialogo, a la discusion y reflexion sobre el ser y el hacer ciudad, involucrandonos ludicamente a procesos imaginativos sobre la arquitectura, la sustentabilidad, la ciudad y la gente de nuestro tiempo.
La Ciudad Empieza Aqui, es precisamente eso, un esfuerzo por ir a las preguntas grandes, a las di... more La Ciudad Empieza Aqui, es precisamente eso, un esfuerzo por ir a las preguntas grandes, a las dificiles, las importantes; e intentar esbozar soluciones, herramientas, leyes. No basta con imaginarnos una ciudad mas amable, caminable, sana o sostenible; necesitamos explorar las opciones de como hacerlo y estos esfuerzos intelectuales y colectivos son los que nos van dando la claridad que necesitamos. Me resulta curioso que esta metafora de las piedras a la que hago alusion, tambien la usara Giorgio Grassi para describir a la ciudad como un producto colectivo. La Ciudad Empieza Aqui explora esas leyes que hacen que las piedras se sostengan. Cuando entendamos esto, solo ahi, podremos ser arco, acera, puente, plaza, ciudad. Mientras tanto solo seremos un monton de piedras apiladas en el suelo.
This article contributes to the debate on public housing policies in Ecuador through an evaluatio... more This article contributes to the debate on public housing policies in Ecuador through an evaluation of urban sustainability and living experience in public housing projects in Cuenca (Ecuador). To this end, the projects built from 1970 to 2014 were identified and three were chosen that correspond to different urban fabrics and are located in various areas of the city and promoted by dissimilar public entities. To evaluate sustainability, assessment models were used to demonstrate that the three projects are poorly rated and that those located on the city limits are rated even lower. In order to assess living experience, surveys were conducted to identify differences in the ways of inhabiting the immediate surroundings and the city. The results indicate that projects disconnected from urban centers generate a series of unsatisfactory effects for life in society. In light of the results, public housing policies must be rethought with a view to overcoming their role as clientelism tools...
Building and Environment, 2018
Outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) is an indicator of urban-environmental sustainability. A better und... more Outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) is an indicator of urban-environmental sustainability. A better understanding of OTC requires exploring the effects of contextual, non-thermal and human-related factors on thermal sensation votes (TSV) in addition to the long-studied thermophysiological and microclimatic factors. In this research, the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM) structure was used for grouping thermophysiological and non-thermal factors in three environments: corporeal (level of physical activity, level of clothing, gender, age and skin tone), mental (perceived urban agreeability, perceived urban insecurity and perceived urban noise) and social (company, occupation and cultural background). Field surveys were performed in three representative weeks of the annual climate-type in Cuenca, Ecuador during the hottest month (January), a cooler month (July) and an intermediate month (April), surveying 2321 users of two urban sites located at representative areas of the Tomebamba riverbanks. Statistical descriptive analysis and inferential methods were employed for exploring the effect of these SEM factors on the TSV using the Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) calculated with RayMan1.2 from on-site measured data. The analytical results evidenced a low influence of all three SEM environments on the TSV. Additionally, differences in male and female OTC requirements were identified, and two local PET-TSV scales were calculated from (1) urban global radiation data and (2) mean radiant temperature, calculated according to ISO 7726 with Ø 150 mm black-globe-thermometer measurements. The main results show Acceptable Temperature Ranges (rTa) in Cuenca from 29°C to 34°C PET (1) and from 26°C to 37°C PET (2), for 85% acceptability.
ABSTRACT Este trabajo se inmiscuye en el campo del conocimiento científico de los valores formale... more ABSTRACT Este trabajo se inmiscuye en el campo del conocimiento científico de los valores formales y tipológicos de una muestra de arquitectura rural tradicional del siglo XX en la provincia del Azuay en el Ecuador que ha permanecido escondida o simplemente ha sido poco conocida y muy rara vez valorada con objetividad. Consideramos que los resultados de la investigación deben servir para recuperar una manera de hacer arquitectura que se está perdiendo. Además, los principios constructivos y de diseño estudiados se pueden emplear en los procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje. La ejecución de estas obras de arquitectura, promovidas por razones de cobijo y protección, manifiestan, en el fondo, una búsqueda permanente de la belleza, de relaciones geométricas y de proporciones matemáticas, que son universales; aunque, quizá, la población de estos sectores no es consciente del enorme aporte que su propia arquitectura puede ofrecer a nivel estético y formal.
La casa: Espacios domésticos, modos de habitar, 2019, ISBN 978-84-17301-24-8, págs. 206-217, 2019
Facing the expansive growth of cities and the wasteful consumption of resources, cities must be m... more Facing the expansive growth of cities and the wasteful consumption of resources, cities must be measured in its immense complexity, and its parts and layers must be observed so as to assess its ability to support such pressures. Cities should look at themselves and define how far away they are from a sustainable model, which means a greater sense of community, mixed uses, higher densities, better public space, higher quality of life, less energy consume, among others. This paper presents a toolbox for assessing sustainable urban densification using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The toolbox uses spatial analysis and cartographic representation techniques to characterize and analyze the spatial distribution of a set of indicators using an orthogonal grid. The toolbox includes the automatic computation of 20 indicators of urban sustainability organized in four themes: compactness, diversity of uses, urban green, and socio-spatial integration. It also computes a Sustainable Urba...
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2019
In recent years attention has been given to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, causing cl... more In recent years attention has been given to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, causing climate change, without recognizing the importance of urban form. In Latin American cities, spatial dynamics, urban fabrics and territorial distribution, among others, are not always considered when plans are developed. The cities of Ecuador, particularly Cuenca, show processes of dispersion as a result of their own growth disconnected from urban centers, which is evidenced by the high rate of use of the private vehicle per capita and implies a high consumption of fossil energy and environmental pollution. Additionally, urban fabrics affect the functioning and social dynamics of a city and therefore have a direct relationship with planning. With this background, this project seeks to identify and categorize different urban fabrics in the city of Cuenca using a visual methodology that takes into account street and block patterns; patterns of parcelization and land use; building form, scale and placement on lots; street and parking design; and typical relationships between "green" and "gray" landscape components. As a result, eighteen urban fabrics were identified in the city, with different challenges and opportunities for sustainability. The produced knowledge allowed the generation of sustainable and resilient planning recommendations and opened a wide field of possibilities for future research.
Casas y Conjuntos nos presenta los resultados de investigación en torno a un tema sustantivo en l... more Casas y Conjuntos nos presenta los resultados de investigación en torno a un tema sustantivo en las ciudades latinoamericanas: la vivienda social. La propuesta reflexiva que orienta este trabajo, indaga acerca de las políticas públicas habitacionales, los proyectos construidos, su impacto en la ciudad y en la calidad de vida de sus habitantes. En el libro, se comunica con gran lucidez, la complejidad sistémica de los diferentes aspectos que inciden en torno a la vivienda de producción gubernamental y que a la vez, se despliegan de ella. Al mismo tiempo, se enfatiza la urgencia ineludible de reformular las acciones en torno a la vivienda social desde una perspectiva cualitativa y sostenible.CuencaSerie Ciudades Sustentable
Urban Morphology
Architecture, and particularly the architecture of housing, has been critically important in the ... more Architecture, and particularly the architecture of housing, has been critically important in the history of humanity; however, its analysis has not often addressed all of its complexity. There is a need to understand the built structures as a fundamental component of urban form and their historical evolution as the result of a dialogue with the city as a whole. In this context, and to contribute to this analysis, this paper discusses how urban tissues and residential types emerged during the twentieth century in the city of Cuenca (Ecuador). A two-stage qualitative and exploratory methodology was used: a) the identification of urban tissues related to residential uses that, jointly with the compilation and analysis of historical maps, allowed the understanding of the city’s overall evolution; and b) the documentation of residential building types through the analysis of databases and historical archives that provided 221 case studies. From this, seven residential types were defined:...
Journal of Sports Sciences
This article delves into the scientific knowledge of the formal and typological values of a sampl... more This article delves into the scientific knowledge of the formal and typological values of a sample of traditional rural architecture from the twentieth century in the province of Azuay, Ecuador, which has remained hidden or has simply been little known and rarely assessed with objectivity. It is believed that the results of this research will serve to regain a way of making architecture that is being lost. In addition, the building and design principles studied can be used in teaching and learning processes. These works of architecture, which were promoted for shelter and protection, ultimately show a constant search for beauty, geometric relationships and mathematical proportions that are universal; although, perhaps the inhabitants of these areas are not aware of the enormous contribution that their own architecture can make at an aesthetic and formal level.Este trabajo se inmiscuye en el campo del conocimiento científico de los valores formales y tipológicos de una muestra de arq...
Modernidad y vanguardia en américa latina 1930-1970.: II Jornadas Internacionales de Historia del arte y arquitectura (HiSTAA), 2017, ISBN 978-9978-14-437-4, págs. 95-122, 2017
Universidad-Verdad, 2021
El análisis y comprensión de la incidencia de los factores socioeconómicos, de percepción y d... more El análisis y comprensión de la incidencia de los factores socioeconómicos, de percepción y de mesoescala urbana sobre los modos de movilidad de los niños y niñas en edad escolar es fundamental para fomentar el uso de modos más sustentables. Este estudio explora la relación entre factores socioeconómicos, de percepción y de mesoescala urbana sobre los modos de movilidad diaria de niños y niñas en edad escolar (6 a 12 años) en la ciudad intermedia de Cuenca (Ecuador, América Latina). Se utilizó la herramienta Random Forest, como método de aprendizaje automático supervisado, para clasificar los modos de movilidad en: “caminar”, “autobús” y “automóvil”, y para identificar la importancia de los factores en cada modo. Los datos se obtuvieron de una encuesta de movilidad realizada en hogares de Cuenca en el 2019. A pesar de que buseta es un modo de movilidad usual para escolares, no pudo ser considerado en este estudio ya que no se contemplaba en la encuesta original ut...
Ver desde otra perspectiva es lo que pretendemos en el libro La Ilusión de la Ciudad que es la re... more Ver desde otra perspectiva es lo que pretendemos en el libro La Ilusión de la Ciudad que es la recopilación de investigaciones, preguntas, sueños y desvelos, de más de cien personas que participaron en LlactaCamp1.0, en marzo 2014, y que, cada día de su vida, están pensando y actuando, desde una mirada nueva, a favor de una mejor ciudad. LlactaCamp1.0 nos permitió conocernos, aprender, compartir, reflexionar y sobretodo darnos cuenta de que hay mucha gente interesada en transformar el espacio que habitamos.
En este libro podemos entender y disfrutar desde una experiencia de vida hasta una pequena gran i... more En este libro podemos entender y disfrutar desde una experiencia de vida hasta una pequena gran idea, donde lo mas interesante es el aporte multidisciplinario que contiene, sin la necesidad de ser arquitecto y/o Urbanista para su comprension. Simplemente se necesita ser ciudadano activo, donde la principal herramienta es la razon. Los escritos desarrollados en estas paginas muestran una narrativa que nos induce al dialogo, a la discusion y reflexion sobre el ser y el hacer ciudad, involucrandonos ludicamente a procesos imaginativos sobre la arquitectura, la sustentabilidad, la ciudad y la gente de nuestro tiempo.
La Ciudad Empieza Aqui, es precisamente eso, un esfuerzo por ir a las preguntas grandes, a las di... more La Ciudad Empieza Aqui, es precisamente eso, un esfuerzo por ir a las preguntas grandes, a las dificiles, las importantes; e intentar esbozar soluciones, herramientas, leyes. No basta con imaginarnos una ciudad mas amable, caminable, sana o sostenible; necesitamos explorar las opciones de como hacerlo y estos esfuerzos intelectuales y colectivos son los que nos van dando la claridad que necesitamos. Me resulta curioso que esta metafora de las piedras a la que hago alusion, tambien la usara Giorgio Grassi para describir a la ciudad como un producto colectivo. La Ciudad Empieza Aqui explora esas leyes que hacen que las piedras se sostengan. Cuando entendamos esto, solo ahi, podremos ser arco, acera, puente, plaza, ciudad. Mientras tanto solo seremos un monton de piedras apiladas en el suelo.
This article contributes to the debate on public housing policies in Ecuador through an evaluatio... more This article contributes to the debate on public housing policies in Ecuador through an evaluation of urban sustainability and living experience in public housing projects in Cuenca (Ecuador). To this end, the projects built from 1970 to 2014 were identified and three were chosen that correspond to different urban fabrics and are located in various areas of the city and promoted by dissimilar public entities. To evaluate sustainability, assessment models were used to demonstrate that the three projects are poorly rated and that those located on the city limits are rated even lower. In order to assess living experience, surveys were conducted to identify differences in the ways of inhabiting the immediate surroundings and the city. The results indicate that projects disconnected from urban centers generate a series of unsatisfactory effects for life in society. In light of the results, public housing policies must be rethought with a view to overcoming their role as clientelism tools...
Building and Environment, 2018
Outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) is an indicator of urban-environmental sustainability. A better und... more Outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) is an indicator of urban-environmental sustainability. A better understanding of OTC requires exploring the effects of contextual, non-thermal and human-related factors on thermal sensation votes (TSV) in addition to the long-studied thermophysiological and microclimatic factors. In this research, the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM) structure was used for grouping thermophysiological and non-thermal factors in three environments: corporeal (level of physical activity, level of clothing, gender, age and skin tone), mental (perceived urban agreeability, perceived urban insecurity and perceived urban noise) and social (company, occupation and cultural background). Field surveys were performed in three representative weeks of the annual climate-type in Cuenca, Ecuador during the hottest month (January), a cooler month (July) and an intermediate month (April), surveying 2321 users of two urban sites located at representative areas of the Tomebamba riverbanks. Statistical descriptive analysis and inferential methods were employed for exploring the effect of these SEM factors on the TSV using the Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) calculated with RayMan1.2 from on-site measured data. The analytical results evidenced a low influence of all three SEM environments on the TSV. Additionally, differences in male and female OTC requirements were identified, and two local PET-TSV scales were calculated from (1) urban global radiation data and (2) mean radiant temperature, calculated according to ISO 7726 with Ø 150 mm black-globe-thermometer measurements. The main results show Acceptable Temperature Ranges (rTa) in Cuenca from 29°C to 34°C PET (1) and from 26°C to 37°C PET (2), for 85% acceptability.
ABSTRACT Este trabajo se inmiscuye en el campo del conocimiento científico de los valores formale... more ABSTRACT Este trabajo se inmiscuye en el campo del conocimiento científico de los valores formales y tipológicos de una muestra de arquitectura rural tradicional del siglo XX en la provincia del Azuay en el Ecuador que ha permanecido escondida o simplemente ha sido poco conocida y muy rara vez valorada con objetividad. Consideramos que los resultados de la investigación deben servir para recuperar una manera de hacer arquitectura que se está perdiendo. Además, los principios constructivos y de diseño estudiados se pueden emplear en los procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje. La ejecución de estas obras de arquitectura, promovidas por razones de cobijo y protección, manifiestan, en el fondo, una búsqueda permanente de la belleza, de relaciones geométricas y de proporciones matemáticas, que son universales; aunque, quizá, la población de estos sectores no es consciente del enorme aporte que su propia arquitectura puede ofrecer a nivel estético y formal.
La casa: Espacios domésticos, modos de habitar, 2019, ISBN 978-84-17301-24-8, págs. 206-217, 2019
Facing the expansive growth of cities and the wasteful consumption of resources, cities must be m... more Facing the expansive growth of cities and the wasteful consumption of resources, cities must be measured in its immense complexity, and its parts and layers must be observed so as to assess its ability to support such pressures. Cities should look at themselves and define how far away they are from a sustainable model, which means a greater sense of community, mixed uses, higher densities, better public space, higher quality of life, less energy consume, among others. This paper presents a toolbox for assessing sustainable urban densification using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The toolbox uses spatial analysis and cartographic representation techniques to characterize and analyze the spatial distribution of a set of indicators using an orthogonal grid. The toolbox includes the automatic computation of 20 indicators of urban sustainability organized in four themes: compactness, diversity of uses, urban green, and socio-spatial integration. It also computes a Sustainable Urba...