Part 2

Description

What could be the urban and architectural conditions that would allow a good quality of life in the 21st century?  To enter this course, the student has already had knowledge of the basic fundamentals of the profession and has studied the regional and urban scales. It is considered important for the student to acquire the ability to develop an architectural project that can be presented to the authorities for a building permit application.

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The Popular Housing project addresses the problem of the qualitative and quantitative housing deficit in neighborhoods of informal origin in the process of consolidation, located in the city of Bogotá.
An academic approach to the problem of popular habitat is proposed, through a comprehensive study from the urban, technological-environmental, social, aesthetic and management components, which are coordinated by the project management and from which project decisions are oriented. on the architectural and urban scales. In this context, the student must identify themes and propose project ideas, based on design criteria, under the guidance of the direction at the level of the preliminary project and final project.
The projects include variables related to progressivity, informality, productivity, heterogeneity and habitability, among others, in response to dynamics typical of the popular neighborhood. From there, new housing projects, neighborhood and housing improvement, resettlement, or experimental projects are developed. In this way, the student acquires an understanding of the problem addressed and develops the skill in architectural and urban design for its adequate attention.

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How to achieve the improvement in the conditions of urban quality of life, inclusion, equity and prosperity, for the community, in the areas of the city or rural context that show deficits of public service buildings, based on architectural projects and public space at the service of all kind of people, or specifically focused on vulnerable populations?
 The project addresses the problem of the qualitative, quantitative deficit of urban facilities, aimed at responding in terms of dignity and human rights, in different sectors of the city or rural context. The intervention areas will be those that offer potentials, opportunities and multiple possibilities to develop an urban and architectural intervention, in terms of traditional public building or specifically directed to vulnerable populations, associated with the community and its social and environmental context.
 The student will acquire the competence, ability and skills, necessary for the development of a project intervention from a comprehensive vision and strategic approach. This requires a harmonious and holistic design of the conditions: urban, environmental, technological, social and management, including parameters of well-being and adaptability to the physical and mental characteristics and limitations of people, within the missionary and formative principles of the Javeriana University.

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The Project emphasizes multi-disciplinarity and exploration in the understanding and management of alternative emerging strategies, understanding the architecture of the city and the territory as dynamic subjects. The subject prioritizes the implementation of the design, construction and management of projects with communities in vulnerable conditions in different regions. This approach promotes interventions for cultural, social, environmental and economic interrelationships, with a spatial support from which individuals and communities build a sustainable future. The approach and methodology of the project is developed under the notions and strategies of learning-by-doing (J. Dewey) and the Creation of situations and Deriva (G. Debord) as a way of approaching the spatial specificity of the urban and architectural project. from its form and its process through the experimentation of urban life, in a new and radical way, within a psycho-geographical proposal.

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Identify the evolutionary changes in habitable landscapes that occur through hybridizations and cultural ruptures linked to technological and scientific changes that characterize our times.  The project is marked mainly by advances in bio-information, which is integrated with biological and computational relationships, and new technological convergences between physics (space), chemistry (materials) and biology itself (Ecosystems). 

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The Heritage Project course analyzes how the intervention in a site modifies and affects its spatial structure at all levels. Each architectural project is part of an urban plan, both at the scale of a sector and of the city itself; and each urban undertaking is materialized in specific architectural interventions.
The subject starts from the basis that spatial structures, and their formal manifestation in which XXI century life develops, have been the product of a process of intervention and transformation over time. These correspond to technological and ideological changes, and their responses to the real needs of the inhabitants, which have not always produced an improvement in the quality of life.
In that order of ideas, the course pursues a detailed methodical knowledge of the historical processes that have given rise to the creation of a place, as a basic task for the formulation of proposals that generate the improvement of habitability. This is achieved by examining the technological transformations that have occurred, its relationship with changes in aesthetic postures, and the possibility of their improvement, without modifying the values still in force.
In this course, it is necessary to make an exhaustive critique of the development of the city, in order to preserve those elements that historically have been, and continue to be, indispensable in the conformation of human settlements and what’s around them, as references for the continuity of building with new architecture. 
In this class, tradition is understood as the spatial construction that a community has made for its consolidation and survival over time. It is intended that the architect, as designer of a project at any scale, will understand that the creative processes implicit in the conformation of the place, began long before his/her assignment. In consequence, his/her work must guarantee a proper balance between improvement and continuity.

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Description

The Heritage Project course analyzes how the intervention in a site modifies and affects its spatial structure at all levels. Each architectural project is part of an urban plan, both at the scale of a sector and of the city itself; and each urban undertaking is materialized in specific architectural interventions.
The subject starts from the basis that spatial structures, and their formal manifestation in which XXI century life develops, have been the product of a process of intervention and transformation over time. These correspond to technological and ideological changes, and their responses to the real needs of the inhabitants, which have not always produced an improvement in the quality of life.
In that order of ideas, the course pursues a detailed methodical knowledge of the historical processes that have given rise to the creation of a place, as a basic task for the formulation of proposals that generate the improvement of habitability. This is achieved by examining the technological transformations that have occurred, its relationship with changes in aesthetic postures, and the possibility of their improvement, without modifying the values still in force.
In this course, it is necessary to make an exhaustive critique of the development of the city, in order to preserve those elements that historically have been, and continue to be, indispensable in the conformation of human settlements and what’s around them, as references for the continuity of building with new architecture. 
In this class, tradition is understood as the spatial construction that a community has made for its consolidation and survival over time. It is intended that the architect, as designer of a project at any scale, will understand that the creative processes implicit in the conformation of the place, began long before his/her assignment. In consequence, his/her work must guarantee a proper balance between improvement and continuity.

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