Construction of series of common-use classrooms in Latin America

Abstract

Synthesizing concepts set down on the prologue of the original work, the Architect Liliana Rainis says: «This work aims two aspects of undeniable merit: on the one hand, the unfolding of all the steps of a design process understood in its phases of: specific design, construction and use-verification, and on the hand, the explanation of a method of total design or ecodesign. Both aspects rarely find themselves together in architectural publications on «design», whether it is a matter of books or of specialized magazines; the first aspect, upon arriving at verification, allows the advance on that mere «analysis» or «interpretation» which the bibliography generally permits, in order to complete the true critique up to the evaluation stage, where the designer becomes his own critic. The second aspect develops an actual methodology based on a previous study, delineating a theoretical main part that could shape what the autor calls ecodesign. Coherent with the whole process it studies, the work is organized in the four parts which form that process: design, execution, verification, epilogue. It is therefore a matter of thoughts and explanations which first point out the almost permanent problems of the Argentinian university in its social and political context and within the difficulty to provide particular physical answers to a growing university population, problems which in themselves are interesting and of fundamental importance in our country. Finally, following the conclusions of the work, it is a stimulus to continue studying the problem, both in detail and in general, taking into account the world situation of the last decades where new universities has been developed whether on pedagogical plans or in its physical structures (let us remember the examples of Europe, the United States, Canada, etc.), supporting a wide and profound debate which would involve the university in its double aspect: as knowledge activity and as an architectural urban planning both complex and operational, with professionals, educators and students.