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Author

Mena Parra, Bérnal

Date

2014

Summary

This graduation project consists of a proposal for a sustainable design that encourages the development of tourism, and scientific research, natural and archaeological site in the National Wildlife Refuge San Lucas Island, located in the Gulf of Nicoya, Puntarenas. The first stage of the project is focused on the development of a Master Plan for Sustainable, which is part of a diagnosis of the resources of the refuge and its immediate environment; in this initial stage are developed uprisings planimetric, three-dimensional and photography of the constraints of the island, namely: climatology, geomorphology, nature of the coverage, hydrology, archaeological resources, flora, fauna, infrastructure, heritage and non-heritage trails, among others. This plan allows you to set guidelines for the sustainability of environmental, social and economic of the island; guidelines for environmental conservation and socio-economic development of the communities of the Gulf of Nicoya and Puntarenas; criteria of territorial planning by management zones, and the determination of potential projects for the island. The second stage consists in the development of a set of designs located in the Historic Center of the Criminal, related to the care of visitors, administrative activities; research and hostels for rangers and scientists. Taking into consideration the criteria for a construction of sustainable, bioclimatic design, and the design of an integrated architecture to the environment and respectful of the identity and the historical architecture of the place.

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Author

Villalobos Vega, Roberto

Date

2014

Summary

The city and what is understood as your reality, is a complex construction and infinite that is woven between its intangible nature, such as memory, the emotions, the ideas, the senses; and their definitions are tangible, such as physical forms, buildings, events citizens. This reciprocal relationship that links the imagined with the empirical territories, is the fundamental basis of the production of urban space, a process which posits the city as a work in development where their forms and discourses are constantly transformed as the essence and actions of its inhabitants. This position is in contrast with the imaginary city called “Southern suburbs” in San José, Costa Rica. A compilation of symbols mostly negative used to designate a dominant way to the territory South of the Central part. This image is not flexible, not mutated, not updated, because it is the fruit of your own experience and sense of territory, which is a crisis in the production of urban space. This research arises from the need to understand phenomena and characteristics that contribute to a critical relationship between the tangible and intangible assets of the territory, exploring the possibilities of Architecture and Urbanism, as fields involved in the dynamic socio-spatial city, on the approach of interpretations and alternatives to the problem. The work was carried out in three stages: The first is a theoretical approach/ framework for understanding the link between what is imaginary and what is empirical of the city, synthesized in a diagram of interpretation is called the Structure of Production of Urban Space. In a second stage is performed a Portrait or a territorial analysis of the Neighbourhoods of the South and Barrio Cuba, according to the dominant discourse in order to identify their implications in the organization, design, investment, planning and urban experience. As a final step, we propose pathways and tools update productive of the territory from the concept of Imagination, a process that not only attends to the perception and processing of all that is created, but that is creation in power, and therefore, makes it possible to exercise critical and alternative response schemes dominant representation that affect the dynamics with which the city produces and what is understood as their reality.

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Author

Obando Fernandez, Alex Steven

Date

2014

Summary

The present Work End of Graduation, called the New Urban Center of Plums, Alajuela, comprises the design of a space to inhabit, in which converge the housing, recreation, and work. This space, form part of a macro strategy of interventions to the south-west sector of the Central Canton of Alajuela. This approach responds to the name of Broker Urban San Rafael-Turrúcares. The formulation of this work, results from the research conducted in the course of Design Workshop IX of Great Compositions in this sector. The development of the Project, included in a first stage, the study and analysis of the context, that covers every one of their structures. We study the roads and the conditions physical space, physical, environmental, socio-economic and recreational-cultural. The purpose of this study is to identify the potentialities of the site and conceptualize the overall strategy along with the axes of action of the conceptual design of ordering. This proposal of law, raises a number of strategic projects, where it follows the New Urban Center of Plums from Alajuela (CU-Plums). This Project aims to consolidate a new kernel within the concept of the Compact City. This new kernel is intended to be developed in a manner that provides for the mixed-use and inclusiveness. The project proposes to integrate the current and future population of the area, in addition to the people from other sectors, attracted by the industrial growth and employment in the same poses. The Proposed CU-Plums, provides for the development of housing projects and mixed-use, including recreational use within their activities. Poses on the other hand, the design of a series of interventions in the public space with function to facilitate social cohesion and the integration with the context.

It is important to clarify, that this graduation project develops his research jointly between the student: Luis Diego Salas Castro, and Alex Steven Obando Fernández, so that the documents of both are complement of each other. By the administrative formality, these projects are presented separately, but must be understood as two components of design partners in a same intervention strategy.