Abstract:A premise. “Progetto Urbano Costa di Asuncion – P.U.C.A” (Urban Project of Asuncion’s Coast) is the title of the undersigned’s (awarded the cum laude honor) master’s thesis, developed between July 201...A premise. “Progetto Urbano Costa di Asuncion – P.U.C.A” (Urban Project of Asuncion’s Coast) is the title of the undersigned’s (awarded the cum laude honor) master’s thesis, developed between July 2013 and June of 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Anna Irene Del Monaco from Sapienza – Universita di Roma (Rome, Italy) and Prof. Ricardo Meyer from UNA – Universidad Nacional de Asuncion (Asuncion, Paraguay). The thesis project has been awarded the Sapienza Foundation scholarship and honor on June 20 th 2013, allowing for a three month (July-October 2013) in-situ stay, during the initial phase of the investigation. In Guarani (native language of the Tupi-Guarani populations and an official language of the Republic of Paraguay, still diffusely spoken) the word “puca” (also spelled puka) means “smile” (noun): such title is the summa of the spirit with which the following work was conceived. Visits – even dealing with situations of relative risk – and established relations with local occupants of the project’s area gave the operative guidelines of the work: designing with social compromise, involving the recipients concretely in the construction of the project in an attempt to interpret their wills and expectations. The objective was to return a project capable of generating what seemed to be, to the eyes of whom is writing, often missing in the thoughts and looks of the local inhabitants: confidence in one’s capabilities, hope in a better future, expectations that things will go better. In one word: the missing smile.Read More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-12-15
Language: en
Type: article
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