Residencia universitaria para la UCSG.

Abstract

The degree work presents an architectural residency proposal for foreign students of the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil. Located within the university campus, the program includes single, double and reduced-capacity rooms for 110 students, as well as its own administrative and service spaces. The main objective is to respond architecturally to the housing, study and leisure needs of the students as a group of specific users. This is why the project follows the concept of co-living, a temporary housing model developed on the basis of collectivity. Through a theoretical and typological analysis, strategies are established to create a sense of community, such as including double heights, direct meeting areas and collective spaces. The intention is to respond to the needs of the students at the same time to encourage interpersonal relations between them; this achieved through the constant mutual recognition that is born from the corridors to the recurrence of common spaces.