DISEÑO ARQUITECTÓNICO DE UN PARQUE DEL CONOCIMIENTO QUE CONTRIBUYA AL DESARROLLO EDUCATIVO – CULTURAL EN LA CIUDAD DE GUAYAQUIL

Abstract

Within the educational framework, Ecuador has been incorporating new methods to the right development of quality education, so that the UNESCO´s “Laboratorio Latinoamericano de la Evaluación de la Calidad de la Educación” (LLECE), values the importance that has been given to the vulnerable sectors of the population, and to the correct evaluation and preparation to the teacher. Despite the great advance in the pedagogic system there is still a long way to go in the teaching-learning process compared against others international regimes in this sector. A complement to the educational regime proposed in other countries are the so called “Knowledge Parks” whose function is to be a building for social encounter and dedicated to the realization of diverse cultural disciplines. This way the benefited public are the children, teenagers and young adults whose are in the period of capacitation and formation, that´s to say it’s is an infrastructure that allows the integral development of all the cognitive capacities of the students . The present project defines a space with all the requirements that a student needs to develop what is taught in the classroom of their school or college, so that a balance between the terms: “society-education-recreation” is achieved through its architectural components. This way with the help of a healthy and context and suitable for easy learning in conjunction with and adequate infrastructure, to form a quality environment for the development of these activities. Located in front of the citadel “Puerto Azul” on the “Via a la Costa” highway in an area of 4.1 ha, there is a main element located from northwest to southwest where the dynamism of building blocks used in children´s games, outlines the conception of a building with characteristics of modular architecture, starting from the idea that playing you also learn. Consequently, the structure of descriptive research determined the spaces of workshops of artistic and scientific technological education in conjunction with the relocation and conformation of the landscape of the proper samanes of the terrain.