The growth and aging of the urban population in Latin America present challenges for the design of public spaces. Since they make fewer daily trips and prefer shorter routes, older adults tend to be especially sensitive to their residential surroundings. Although the influence of urban space on their subjective well-being is acknowledged, there is limited research on the impact of color in outdoor public spaces for this age group - especially regarding color saturation. This study explores the immediate emotional experience of older adults in response to the chromatic atmosphere of Rodolfo Beckdorf Park in Valdivia (Chile), through Color-Emotion Walks, allowing real-time capture of color perception and associated emotions in a specific urban context. Based on the findings, levels of color saturation that tend to foster positive emotions are identified, and recommendations are proposed for the design of chromatically inclusive public spaces, emphasizing the importance of enhancing the color experience in urban environments, promoting greater subjective well-being in old age.
This article addresses the first architectural restoration projects conducted in Chile. Works were overseen by the National Monuments Council (NMC) and funded by the first historic monument repair budget, allocated by the State in the mid-twentieth century. The study offers a review of works carried out between 1950 and 1954. Previously unpublished documents from the NMC archive provide meeting minutes and progress reports relating to these pioneering works, and analysis reveals that the early interventions of the 1950s were conducted in line with prevailing thought concerning restoration of monuments to the past. More specifically, this study addresses the connections between these restoration works and the fundamental concepts of the discipline as set out in the Athens Charter of 1931. This, the first international treatise of its kind, came to shape the development of the discipline during the first half of the twentieth century in Europe, and its influence reached even as far as the distant continent of Latin America.
Digitizing analog objects and processes has led to a virtual world that increasingly feels like a new kind of reality. This paper examines the intersection of architecture and digitization, focusing on the creation of spaces in the metaverse. It addresses the challenge of designing immersive environments that emulate real-world interactions while fostering self-actualization and creativity. The study employs five key concepts-parallax, everted space, circumvent space, the Proteus effect, and the holographic universe-to analyze how digital technologies reshape architectural design. Methods include exploring kinesthetic perception, avatar-influenced spatial navigation, and the merging of physical and virtual components. Parallax and everted space facilitate deeper interactions and foster creativity in virtual architectural spaces. Avatars are more than replicas, they upgrade a digital presence for the creative user-subject-designer into virtual worlds, circumventing physical limits, since consciousness and imagination surpass object-based thinking. Architectural designers can be influenced by avatar characteristics within and outside of a virtual environment, such as the Proteus effect. Furthermore, by merging the real and virtual worlds, the holographic universe accelerates human perception and creativity.
This article examines the housing complex Torres del Parque, designed by Rogelio Salmona in Bogot & aacute;, as an expression of an ethics of hospitality grounded in the interplay between architecture and landscape. Based on the categories of form, function, structure, and process - inspired by the thought of Milton Santos - it investigates how the work transcends functionalist modernism by proposing a sensitive and relational experience of urban dwelling. The article adopts landscape as a theoretical-methodological operator to understand the project not only as the outcome of geographical and historical constraints, but also as a cultural and political practice committed to hospitality. The interpretation proposes architecture as mediation between city, nature, and culture, capable of producing spaces that foster encounters, belonging, and the recognition of otherness through forms open to the territory, to the other, and to the future.
El presente artículo se refiere a las primeras obras de restauración arquitectónica impulsadas en Chile por el Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales (CMN), financiadas por el primer presupuesto de refacción de monumentos históricos, que el Estado erogó a mediados del siglo XX. La investigación revisa las obras ejecutadas entre 1950 y 1954. Documentación inédita de archivo del CMN registra actas e informes de ejecución de estas pioneras obras, cuyo análisis permite concluir que estas tempranas intervenciones se alinearon al debate internacional de la época en torno a la restauración de monumentos del pasado. Se establece relaciones entre estas restauraciones y los conceptos presentes en la historia de la disciplina, que desde la década de 1930’ contaba con una primera carta internacional publicada en materia. Se concluye que la restauración arquitectónica en Chile daba sus primeros pasos en la década de 1950’, incluyendo algunas consideraciones teóricas presentes en la restauración científica y en la Carta de Atenas de 1931, tendencia que marcó el desarrollo de estas materias durante la primera mitad del siglo XX en Europa, y que habría tenido también influencia, en este lejano territorio de Latinoamérica.
