Abstract: Noise is undoubtedly part of our lives, so there is a growing concern to develop better acoustic conditioning and insulation conditions in our architecture. In recent years, theories and mathematical models that help to predict the acoustic behavior of some materials have been developed; and due to the growing trend in the use of new raw...
El árbol urbano privado: problemas y estrategias de actuación para la ciudad de Quito
In November 2020, the installation of a solar photovoltaic lighting system contracted for the Juri Juri Kawsay Amazon Scientific Station located in Arajuno was carried out. The coordination / management was carried out by the director of the Institute for Amazonian Studies, Dr. Ivan Jacome. The architect Ursula Freire attended as technical staff...
Architecture can serve as a tool for social cohesion if it provides infrastructure. Mashpi River Community Tourism Association was helped with the design and construction of its Camping Area (multipurpose) with a cellar, bathrooms and a house for one person. It is an architecture that uses hole bamboo for the structure together with concrete bases...
Bamboo is a type of plant that can seen as a large grass or "graminea". It is hollow in its structure, and grows in nots, always towards the light. It is a construction material used in traditional dwelling, but today it promises a lot for larger scale construction. It is sustainable in all three axes, social, economic and environmental....
A student lived for a month in Waorani territory. She wanted to record for posterity a manual about the process of constructing a traditional Waorani house. This traditional house can be described as roof-as-structure, there is no difference between roof and walls as they are one single element made from bended bambu covered by notted leaves of...
The Andes is the pick of the world. A place which due to its geographical and geological characteristics had risen to form a beautiful chain of high mountains and volcanoes over which many cities had appeared. Aesthetically is romantic and mesmerizing to contemplate and to live, but, phisically it comes with the real danger of landslides. This...
what is a Metropolitan Area? How to defined it? These are big questions appropiate to our times of cities that grown until their limits cannot be defined clearly and become huge.
Adobe is a type of brick made of uncooked clay that used to be important in the construction of housing around the world, but, which nowadays has been displaced as a constructive element by materials like concrete, steel or plastic.
While thinking of building with natural materials and plants, one usually imagines wood, but, the world of plants offer other materials, smaller and softer, that used in certain ways can create an industrialized material. Totora is a type of grass that grows next to lakes, likes humidity in the air too. It has a fast growth. In Ecuador, it...