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Convenio de Preservación y Conservación Histórica
Firma de convenio:
Fundamentos de la conservación y la preservación histórica.
Entre la Escuela de Arquitectura de la PUCPR y:
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
Oficina del Centro Histórico del Municipio Autónomo de Ponce
Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica
Adaptive Conservation
Adaptive Conservation and Preservation Experimental Unit
Magda Bardina Garcia
Experimental Unit Strategic Plan
I. INTRODUCTION
The School of Architecture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico starts its existence in the city in a critical and special moment in the storied history of Ponce. After decades of the implementation of various preservationist/renewal programs the city is enjoying a repopulation of both people and commerce. This process has produced a great amount of design, policy, and construction professionals with hands-on experience that this new school is primed to harvest. The wealth of resources this situation has caused gives the School the opportunity and advantage of establishing a strong Adaptive Conservation and Preservation Platform that will become the “Workshop School” (Escuela Taller) for Historic Preservation in Puerto Rico not only for architecture students but for construction professionals and the industry.
II. VISION
The Adaptive Conservation and Preservation Platform will produce highly efficient and well –rounded design and construction professionals with a complex understanding and hands-on ability in the historic restoration field.
III. MISSION
Placed as the fundamental part of the education of historic preservation in Puerto Rico, in the in-between traditional historic archive and the preservation lab, the Advanced Conservation and Preservation Platform (ACP) will establish itself as the “Workshop School” (Escuela Taller) for Historic Preservation in Puerto Rico. Establishing strong ties with agencies related to this field the platform will reinforce its positioning to the most current views and technologies of the preservation and conservation industry. Once this is achieved Ponce and Puerto Rico will become the City Laboratory or the city as experiment where we will create an intellectual infrastructure of professionals and a workforce with hands-on ability.
IV. OBJECTIVES OF ACADEMIC PLATFORM
A. Academic Objective
1. Students will be exposed to the complicated practice of the restoration process in order to achieve a holistic understanding of the field by handling real-life situations in the historic district of Ponce.
2. Promote projects and a preservation vision based on the following:
- Economic viability
- Adherence to construction norms and regulations
- Programmatic reevaluation
- Legacy to the affected community
- Every project will have an educational and social end.
3. The students will confront the real life conditions that are a natural part of the restoration of a building.
4. Once the basic principles of preservation are understood, the analysis of the relationship and presence of a building in its urban context is a fundamental next step.
5. Cities are composed of many elements in which buildings with high historical / architectural value and structures without intrinsic worth form a part of. The preservation platform will strive to understand how to reuse or recycle these elements.
6. The unit will promote a harmonic coexistence between modern interventions in the work of architects of a different epoch.
B. Research
1. Professional support groups will be formed as consultants to institutions and government agencies.
2. The investigations and documentations will be coordinated and conducted with the help of entities such as ICP, SHPO, National Park Service, Autonomous Municipalities Historic Center offices, Municipal and State Historic Archives and Private Institutions.
3. Establish a library of oral histories developed by student interviews in un-documented communities like La Perla, San Antón and La Playa de Ponce.
C. Financial Objectives
1. Services will be exchanged using our investigations cataloging and documentation as currency.
2. Promote Symposiums on preservation with guest speakers and charging admittance and participation rates.
3. Develop a continuing education program with the CAAPPR and college of engineers.
4. Promote the development of elective courses in preservation oriented in the acquisition of a minor in preservation.
5. Promote the development of associate degrees and specialty certificates for construction workers in fields related to historic preservation and conservation.
6. Promote developing the platform for post-graduate courses.
7. Federal and educational research grants
D. Faculty Development
1. Strengthen the professional group we intend to retain.
2. Professors will be kept current on industry standards and new developments by means of continued education.
3. Establish a vigorous debate with all of the components of the school meaning the dean, coordinators professors and students in order to develop the courses and professors by receiving constructive criticism.
4. Maintain an exchange of local and international professors on specific themes and courses.
E. Community Outreach
1. Establish strong relationships with commercial and non-profit entities; and state and federal agencies in related fields.
2. Educate communities with sectors that are established in historical enclaves and historic districts.
3. Help entities indentify and prepare preliminary analysis, documentation and economic proposals for establishing their headquarters in urban and historic centers.
F. Industry
1. Establish strong relationships with a varied array of companies representing all of the facets of the construction industry.
G. Publications
1. The historic investigations, documentations and design projects will form a part of an open archive for the use of the research community and public in general.
2. Promote the publication of investigations, essays and building documentations in various sources like periodicals, internet publications, university website, school websites, platform blog and industry blogs.
Course Descriptions
ARAD 202 Analytical Design Studio II – Adaptive Conservation and Preservation, 5 credits
The studio aims to provide an introduction to the methodology of preservation of historically significant buildings and urban environments, as well as the more interventional adaptive conservation, rehabilitation, and reuse by juxtaposing traditional building methods and new construction both in single structures as well as in a historic zone.
ARAC 101 Fundamentals of Historic Preservation and Conservation, 3 credits
The studio aims to provide an introduction to the fundamental concepts, principles, methods and strategies involved in the preservation and conservation of historic structures, urban contexts, public spaces, and landscapes, as well as the economic, political, cultural and philosophical layers that have transformed, regulated and validated the practice within a chronological framework.
ARAC 201 Preservation Techniques Methods and Strategies for Building Systems, 3 cred.
The course aims to provide a practical guide to the methods for maintaining, restoring and rehabilitating historic buildings, as well as the constructive and administrative methodology. Special emphasis will be given to documentation, survey, materiality, construction systems and assemblies, as well as the administrative framework, management, permitting and regulatory structures that influence the practice.
ARAC 301 Conservation Planning Strategies and Policies, 3credits
The course aims to expand on the topic of planning policies and regulations that define the practical and theoretical practice of conservation, providing also an in depth at governmental historic preservation programs at the federal, state, and local (city and county) levels as a comparative means of policy establishment.
ARAC 401 The Economics of Historic Preservation, 3 credits (Elective)
The course aims to expose students to the economics of historic preservation and the financial techniques used to encourage the preservation of historic property based on the premise that reinvestment and upkeep of historic properties contributes to increased property values and tax revenues.
ARAC 501 Cultural Heritage Tourism, 3 credits (Elective)
The course will investigate the underlying potential for historic preservation to become the catalyst for new heritage tourism development. The course will center around five guiding principles for successful and sustainable cultural heritage tourism development.
ARAC 601 Advanced Preservation Research Strategies, 3 credits (Elective)
This course addresses research strategies and documentation techniques used by professional historic preservationists to identify and record historic structures and sites. It will introduce the importance of ethnographic field strategies to the practice of historic preservation, emphasizing on the inter/multidisciplinary nature of contemporary historic preservation practice in Puerto Rico (and abroad) by using archival, physical, and ethnographic evidence as a basis for establishing significance.
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