University Proyects

PARK MODEL PROJECT FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF INDEPENDENCE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION IN FUNZA. / CENTER FOR REHABILITATION AND EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONS WITH VISUAL RESTRICTION  
UPZ TIBABUYES BOGOTA , COLOMBIA
8TH SEMESTER
BOGOTA -  DOWN TOWN  5TH SEMESTER

School of Architecture and Design

 

Since its creation in 1950, the School of Architecture and Design has worked to establish itself as a leading knowledge center in the teaching, research and services areas in relation to habitat matters, at the university, national, regional, and international level. The objective is to prepare competent professionals who will contribute to the achievement of a better society, a more human city, a region for all, a progressive country, and ultimately, a better world. To reach this goal, the School actively works towards building an educational community guided by the Jesuit Community principles, expressed through the Javeriana University's Mission and Educational Project. The School of Architecture and Design has contributed to the overall education objective through the creation of many valuable research, advising, and consulting projects. Many of its students, teachers, and managerial personnel have received national and international awards and recognition.  

 

THE LEGACY OF SUBURBIA 

“Suburbia is more than a collection of residential buildings; it expresses values so deeply embedded in bourgeois cultures that it might also be called bourgeois utopia... From its origins the suburban works of leisure family life and union with nature was based on the principle of exclusion.“ (Robert Fishman, The Rise and Fall of Bourgeois Utopia) Between the various narratives to trace suburbias origins probably the attempt to locate it in the 18th century development of big British cities is the most convincing. Whereas the urban ecology was still shaped by the identity of work and home in the bourgeois townhouse, which was open to the city, the weekend villa became the forerunner for the suburbia. 

DESSAU - GERMANY

Efectos de la suburbaizacion en la ciudades Latinoamericanas. 

Cada vez las áreas metropolitanas dentro de un mismo país son muy distintas y mas aun en los municipios aledaños que parecen ser mundos diferentes. Dentro de estas metrópolis se encuentran diferentes barrios donde habitan distintas personas de diferentes condiciones raciales o étnicas y clases sociales. A través de esta diversidad de barrios en algunos casos sus habitantes pasan de sentirse fuera de lugar de su ciudad. El tipo de comercio dentro de una ciudad ofrece un reflejo de lo anterior hasta el punto en que un centro comercial dispone de marcas de ropa o diferentes artículos de alta gama y en otra parte tiendas pequeñas o vendedores ambulantes disponen de marcas de artículos mas populares y esto se debe a que la metrópoli es distintiva a sectores donde se integran líneas comerciales en cuanto a la raza, etnia, clase y variedad en la vida comercial. Esto da entender en algunas personas a que lugar no pertenecen. Este paisaje urbano generalizado no es simplemente el resultado de las decisiones del individuo sobre dónde vivir o crear un negocio. Es tal vez el producto de una multitud de políticas gubernamentales.

 

PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDAD VISUAL Y SU ACCESIBILIDAD AL ENTORNO URBANO 

A través de la historia las personas con discapacidad visual han sido discriminadas por su condición y han sido compadecidos e ignorados incluso hasta ocultados.

El espacio en el cual vivimos la mayor parte de la vida el entorno urbano ha sido pensado para que las personas se movilicen de un lado a otro con la plena utilización de la vista y todas sus extremidades. En algunas ciudades de Europa se ha implementado dispositivos sonoros en los semáforos para percibir no solo el espacio en dimensiones sino en tiempo esta es solo una aproximación para establecer un espacio con características vivenciales en donde la limitación visual y física no presente distanciamiento físico y espacial dentro de un medio urbano el cual lo hemos construido en un espacio principalmente visual donde la vivencia se desarrolla a partir de lo que vemos por los ojos. 

Bauhaus 

The new Bauhaus Kolleg will take Levittown, the role model of American suburbia, and the fate of its latest projects as the starting point of a comparative international study on the economic, social, ecological and cultural implications of a global suburbia. The dramatic fallout of the global financial crisis of 2008 can be seen the clearest in the suburbias. Levitt & Sons’ company history can be read as only one example amongst many for the disastrous development of the global financial economy: since the 1980s a transformation has set in, away from investing in immobile capital, i.e. land, and towards investing in liquid assets that can be transferred across national borders in the form of funds and portfolios. Today, ownership has been decoupled to a hitherto unknown extent from the location of the assets. A new international ‘financial market architecture’ in the form of particular investment structures has fostered this development. Residential resorts and gated communities constructed by international developers are the building sites of this global financial market architecture.

 

Contact

OMAR DAVID LAVERDE CABRERA @suprematismoarchitectes