Project and management ecosystem for the first architecture program in Valledupar as a strategy to promote sustainable land use planning in the region.
Rubby Stephanny Gnecco Niño- Jorge Andrés Ortiz Rodríguez
Published 2024-11-01
Keywords
- sustainable land use planning,
- architectural education,
- project management,
- intelligent territories
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Abstract
The purpose of this document is to present the project management methodology of the architecture program of the Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina (Areandina), Valledupar campus, and its impact as the first architecture program in the departments of Cesar and La Guajira in the Caribbean region of Colombia, which began activities in the second semester of 2022 and has developed four semesters.
Areandina is a Colombian university whose substantive functions are: teaching, research and social projection. The methodology is based on the institutional approach, the curricular structure of the program and the integration of the substantive functions through the development of classroom projects and formative research, focused on the solution of local territorial problems, with potential for national and international scaling.
As a result, there is an ecosystem of 7 formative research projects, 2 applied research projects, 1 social projection project, and 1 innovation and technological development project, in which 193 students and 10 professors participated during the period 2024-1 and which contributed to a line of research in sustainable territorial planning, articulated with entities of the external sector to the university, seeking dynamics of interaction with the community for the understanding of the local context and its challenges; applying agile, flexible and adaptable processes, for the delivery of results in terms within the regular academic semester of 16 weeks.
As a main conclusion, this methodology, still in the process of implementation and improvement, has the potential to rapidly increase the program's responsiveness to requests from the external sector, answer to the challenges of the transformación of professional work in architecture, and develop projects of greater impact that pursue the recovery of the urban image of Valledupar as a Green City, which has been lost with the most recent urban developments.