Part 1

Description

Theoretical and practical subject that from the study and analysis of traditional and contemporary principles of architecture aims to provide the student with tools and basic elements of architectural space, which will allow the understanding of architectural and urban determinants with reflection and practice from experience.  The course starts from the premise that architecture is not taught but discovered. It is the beginning of an individual discovery to link thought and production, without the need of a specific order to establish this link. 

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The value of the space and of the relations between spaces into the architecture. The subject proposes to introduce the student to the understanding of the spatial fact through the intimate habitat, the house, the dwelling, the refuge, or any form that shelters the basic functions of rest, food, hygiene and socialization. Living arises in both individual and collective dimensions, in which the events of daily life transcend the interior space to transform the place where the project is implanted. Clarify the relationship between the ideas that support the architectural fact, the elements that make up the form in architecture, and the spatial organization, through 'composition systems',' principles of order 'and the notion of' field structure '. Introduce from concepts such as proportion and scale.

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Theoretical-practical subject that allows the student to establish the mechanisms for the transformation of the place in a given context, and in relation to different scales. This through the development of reflective and purposeful architectural projects in the interaction between architecture and place.The contents will demand the understanding of the context and the place, through the analysis of preexistence, determinants and characteristics of the area of ¿¿intervention. Thus, architecture will weave relationships, articulating the context in a sensitive, comprehensive and responsible way.

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Theoretical and practical subject that allows the student to establish the mechanisms for the transformation of collective space on a neighborhood scale. This through the development of architectural projects with emphasis on the urban void, understood as the space between architecture and the city The contents of the subject will aim at understanding the phenomena and dynamics of the urban place, as well as its morphology and functional structure at the neighborhood scale, in order that the projected collective space account for the structures and systems characteristic of urban spacepractice that allows the student to establish mechanisms for the transformation of the collective space on a neighborhood scale. This through the development of architectural projects with emphasis on the urban void, understood as the space between architecture and the city.

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The landscape is a cultural construction through the gaze and, therefore, it is a key concept to understand our surroundings. The specifically urban ones, dominated by a progressive artificialization since modernity, increasingly demand their renaturalization. However, nature not only fulfills ecosystem services within the city, but also expresses our values and desires as a society. This subject focuses on the design of urban free spaces prioritizing natural materials and processes. All this framed in the concept of "integral ecology", which explains that everything is connected between nature and the society that inhabits it and in the condition of biological megadiversity and culture of the Latin American region. The student will understand the role of nature as scenarios for the urban public and its components as a material to build spaces with design, construction and management dynamics that are different from those that are only artificial.

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The demands of the country and its regions in a context of globalization cover multiple socio-spatial considerations such as: housing deficits, environmental impact management, technological backwardness, among others. Is it possible to respond from the field of architecture to these request on a macro scale?
The scope of this course brings students to the regional urban status of the country in terms of a socio-spatial approach and organization of activities in territorial areas that combine several municipalities, populated centers and rurality. The reflection focuses on the knowledge of the conditions of the regions across the country, whit the definition of a forward-looking vision to them, the proposal of linked territorial modelling and interventions at urban design level.
The academic process is embedded within the perspective of getting students to recognize, to consider and to project from the country and its regions needs, as part of consolidating the ethical and service spirit of future Javeriana architects.

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Descripción Centros Urbanos

The urban centers laboratory project is aimed at building a research platform based on a continuous feedback process between education and research. The student learns with the "learning by doing" methodology. An academic approach to the contemporary condition of the artificially implemented large urban agglomeration is proposed, which reflects a specific process of adaptation and modification of the built environment, little studied outside the logic of precariousness or mere economic, productive and functional rationality.
An agglomeration characterized by the segmentation of the territory into different functional portions, defined by different stages of development and different levels of physical, functional and environmental articulation. The territorial segments are located within a limited series of urban groups, fabrics and objects organized in clear and easily identifiable patterns, both of location and of implantation.
New development perspectives for the city of Bogotá are investigated, using it as a physical space for research and implementation of various spatial development methodologies, aimed at defining new devices and urban-architectural groupings based on emerging modes of "local development" promoted by endogenous and exogenous dynamics typical of the contemporary world.
It is intended that the student, from a perspective of modernization of the territory, develop studies and proposals that contribute to reflecting on the possible futures of our city and similar urban contexts, characterized by their massive demographics, the multitudinous of their sociocultural phenomena and the extreme in the geographical extension of its physical manifestations

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