Mimbre, tierra y lana: sostenibilidad desde un enfoque tecnológico

Abstract

The thermal comfort panel is designed to improve the quality of life of the Boyacá Cómbita population, including traditional techniques such as adobe, wicker fabric and the use of sheep wool that are easily accessible, as well as reducing cost and generate employment, combined with technologies that mitigate the climate in new or existing structures. The rural housing of the Cómbita - Boyacá region has been affected from social aspects, such as family problems, economic problems such as the lack of participation of the peasant in the agrarian industry, and cultural problems such as the traditions with which the peasants perceive households through interior and exterior architectural relations (Naizaque, 2001). In this municipality the agricultural traditions have been present throughout the time in the rural housing, however, they have changed exponentially, closing to private dynamics and diminishing the agricultural activities of the sector according to the DANE (Maldonado et al., 2009) and the EOT (Naizaque, 2001). Therefore, the project proposed in Cómbita Boyacá will search a balance between peasants, housing and agricultural activities, through a participatory design strategy, allowing the community to help solve the previous problems, as they live and understand each day these situations. Poverty has been impacted rural housing evidenced by the unemployment rate of Boyacá, where it remained below the national average (Béland, 2013) states in its territorial study, demonstrating important problems of agricultural and livestock productivity, in the same way, of little generation of jobs by the agricultural sector, family work and informality; these points will be supported with figures from the problem of the present investigation showing the incidence in Boyacá and in the rural sector. For all the above, this research will develop a project of productive housing and a panel for thermal comfort in traditional materials that integrates participatory processes to reduce the migration of peasant population to the cities and the loss of agricultural traditions and relations in the rural area.