Investigación de la consolidación arquitectónica y urbana del centro cívico Salasaca y su correlación con la realidad social, cultural y económica de los habitantes

Abstract

The need, potential and the characteristics of the Salasaca community regarding the social, cultural and economic aspects, adapt improvisedly to the urban - architectural consolidation of the civic center, this is the problem of the present study, as the architectural interventions and urban areas respond to the conception and implementation of ethnocentric models, which have disregarded the community's vision of its territory. The purpose of the research is to determine an architectural and urban morphology that bases its principles on the potentials and values of the community, to consider how to solve the problems of relevance, congruence and functionality between the built structure and the Salasaca community. At the same time, it seeks a proposal that allows to see the public space of the Salasaca Civic Center, as an instrument in which learning / transmission of cultural values, social values, economic performance, productive techniques and other characteristics of the community. Through of the inclusion of bearing elements of identity value, spatial and interpersonal relationships, that allow in a premeditated way the adequate conditions, to conserve and highlight the traditions of the Salasaca culture. Basically the research seeks to materialize the Social, Economic and Cultural factors of the Salasaca Community in Architecture and Urbanism The final product of the research is a structure of relations and concepts applied to the design that are born from Salasaca customs and organization.