Rehabilitación y adaptación de la casa Abdón Calderón Muñoz para la sede del centro tecnológico UCSG-TEC.

Abstract

This project advances an architectural intervention forthe rehabilitation of Casa Calderón Prieto, foregrounding the recovery of its original front façade designed by Guillermo Cubillo in 1959, while articulating an adaptive reuse framework aligned with the programmatic requirements of the UCSG-TEC Technological Studies Center. The façade is posited as the building’s primary bearer of architectural and symbolic value; accordingly, the intervention seeks to reinstate its formal, material, and compositional attributes, eroded by successive alterations. Through this operation, the projectreasserts the building’s urban legibility and its capacity to operate as a meaningful artifact within its immediate context. Concurrently, an adaptive reuse strategy reorganizes the interiorthrough the insertion of an academic and administrative program responsive to contemporary, hybrid modes of learning, while preserving the building’s essential architectural intelligibility. Rejecting literalreconstruction as a potentially inauthentic act, the proposal adopts a critical, stratified approach that establishes a dialogue between the existing fabric and contemporary insertions. New interventions are conceived as legible layers, clearly differentiated yet coherently integrated. In doing so, the project aims to reactivate the building’s cultural agency,reinforce urban memory, and contribute to the reappraisal of modern architecture in Guayaquil.