Teks del Sud

Homogeneity and spatial heterogeneity in the analysis of patterns of the landscape in Medellín

Olgalicia del Pilar Palmett Plata — 2024-06-04

The city of Medellín in its rural configuration has 5 corregimientos, Santa Elena, San Sebastian de Palmitas, San Antonio de Prado, Altavista and San Cristobal and its urban structure is concentrated in the city of Medellín. From this study area, it is intended to demonstrate the selection, application and interpretation of the variations in the ordering patterns and the spatial structure of the landscape of the Medellín area during the last 40 years. This approach seeks to answer the question: What are the variations in the ordering patterns and the spatial structure of the landscape in the Medellín area, which make it possible to identify action measures and conservation of landscape ecosystem services in the city? For this, it has been necessary to explore and combine digital tools, geomatics, remote sensing and digital photogrammetry, which allow, from different graphic possibilities, to analyze landscape elements and their dynamics, as well as a detailed study of land uses for their valuation. and contrast.

The geoprocessing carried out on the satellite images obtained to qualify and quantify land uses has allowed us to appreciate the landscape of Medellín from a spatial perspective, yielding striking, exceptional and artistic images that have a technical, communicative and aesthetic purpose. The qualitative spatial analysis was divided into five parts to detail the structure: territory, region, place, location and landscape, this allowed to obtain a first image of the landscape structure or landscape visual unit (UVP) and its constitution. The formal quantification of the landscape was given by indexes, such as the Index of area, density and variability; Shape indices; Ecotone indices and interior habitat; Distance, neighborhood and connectivity indices, and the Landscape Diversity Index.

La Urban Management in Salta Province, Argentina

Pedro Daniel Fernandez Fernandez — 2024-06-04

During the last decade, multiple territorial planning instruments have been developed at a provincial, metropolitan and municipal scale in the Province of Salta (NW Argentina). According to the outputs of the investigation, most of these instruments have not been reflected in concrete and tangible territorial impacts. On the contrary, conflicts related to urban and territorial unsustainability have intensified and deepened, especially in the geographical scope where the Project is focused, the Lerma Valley Metropolitan Area.

Considering that Institutional capacity weaknesses of public agencies responsible for territorial management have been identified as the root cause of this situation, the study includes propositional contents oriented towards the creation of an Integrated Territorial Management System, based on continuous improvement programs and the use of Key Performance Indicators, which may facilitate the materialization of the Sustainable Territorial Model planned in the project.

Architecture, digital twins and mixed reality.

Clementina Palomo Beltrán — 2024-06-04

The objective of the following article is to explain the importance of using digital twins to navigate a mixed reality. A review of the Singapore case and the implementation of the BIM methodology for construction design and management was carried out, with the intention of showing the increasingly frequent transition through the architectural space with the use of mixed reality technology (physical and virtual). The aspects that address the issue of smart cities and the cities of the future are cited as background.

Yesteryear "Countryside"

Lucio Magarelli — 2024-06-04

The recent dissemination of the studies and exhibitions organized on ruralism carried out by AMO have revived the debates on the logic of urbanization and the means for the construction of a landscape closer to nature.

In this work, we will take as an example what happened during the late 19th century and early 20th century, understanding such a time as the moment of greatest crisis for the development of cities and industrial-capitalist urbanizations after the paradigm shift that meant the creation of of the internal combustion engine, with its consequent urban migrations.

The job opportunities that motivated these migrations were transformed into the formation of slums and dangerous overcrowding for general health, which generated the formation of numerous social crises that would gradually be subdued by a main instrument: workers' housing.

In this way, we will deepen the relationships between workers' housing with the various architectural styles and types, and, in turn, the construction of urban imaginaries as resistance to the advance of modernization. This review of our urban past, based on the similarities with contemporary debates, we believe will provide us with unquestionable tools for the resolution and analysis of our future.

El Proceso proyectual en territorios de borde

Santiago Manuel Rodriguez Alonso — 2024-06-04

El presente artículo replantea el concepto de borde en tanto concepto esencial, entendido hasta entonces como tal, donde el espacio empieza a tener su propia impronta.

A partir de ello se indagan diferentes situaciones de complejidad y apropiación del espacio urbano y de la situación de borde entendida ahora como un espacio vacante que requiera una forma y un diseño acorde al entorno. En tal sentido los conceptos más relevantes tienen que ver con la percepción, con la comprensión, con lo subjetivo. Se busca determinar con claridad el adentro y el afuera. Habiendo recorrido la bibliografía, se puede apreciar cómo la relación ambiente-sociedad determina y condiciona la forma y el diseño.

eVolo and the skyscraper

Julio Mario Valentino — 2024-06-04

The skyscraper has been one of the emblematic architectural types of the 20th century; its image is associated with the idea of progress, technological advances and corporate power. Faced with the changes due to contemporary practices, is this architectural type still valid today? If so, what should the skyscrapers of the 21st century look like?

Possible answers to these questions can be found in the eVolo Skyscraper Competition, which since 2006 and with the motto "Study, develop, evolve, fly", annually invites architects, engineers, designers and artists from all over the world to propose innovative ideas about these vertical buildings.

The following article proposes the analysis of the characteristics of the competition and the establishment in it of a possible agenda of the relevant issues of the discipline today.

El Recycling as sustainable practice in architecture

Gabriel Gomez Carmona — 2024-08-16

Many cities are currently on the brink of an environmental and social crisis that puts their sustainability at risk. This because of the dominant urban growth model that led to the excessive consumption of non-renewable natural resources, which forces us to question the future of cities and rethink urban-architectural practice together with the training process of new professional cadres. The article discusses how architectural recycling constitutes a sustainable commitment to the depletion of the build-abandon-destroy-build scheme. The way in which architectural recycling is incorporated into the curriculum of the degree in Architecture at Universidad La Salle, México, is presented, together with some of the results achieved since its implementation in the 2015 curriculum.