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Revista de Arquitectura accepted for inclusion in SciELO Chile collection

 

Call for Papers Revista de Arquitectura N. º 49.  

 

ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: POISON OR MEDICINE? + FREE THEME

 

Deadline for receipt of articles:  September 7, 2025

Guidelines for authors: https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/about/submissions

Contextual readings on settlement modes in the Atacameño highlands. Case study: Caspana, Chile.

Authors

  • Irene Escobar Doren Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, UTEM

Abstract

The cultural landscape of the native peoples of the Andean highlands suggests sustainable strategies of adaptation to the territory, based on a deep and systemic knowledge of the geographical context that sustains it. Terraced agriculture involves direct contact with the land, water and sun. Life in the highlands implies an adaptation to the climate of the desert, with high daily variations of temperature and abundant rains in summer. The importance of the natural resources that participate in the configuration of the territory generates in its inhabitants the need to provide care, and maintenance in exchange for the richness received and in exchange for protection whenever the climatic or geological factors pose a potential risk to their population. This is manifested in a way of ordering the territory that balances productive, ritual and community activities, in a protected and protected and sheltered environment.

Keywords:

Sustainable settlement, adaptation to the environment, cultural landscape

Author Biography

Irene Escobar Doren, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, UTEM

Arquitecta de la Universidad de Chile, cursando estudios de Máster en Medio Ambiente y Arquitectura Bioclimática en la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), España. Desde 2005 desarrolla proyectos con énfasis en participación y consideraciones medioambientales aplicadas a la arquitectura. Entre 2007 y 2010 integra los equipos de diseño del Centro Cultural GAM (CFA & Lateral), Borde Costero La Poza de Talcahuano y Escuela Teniente Merino de Cochrane (Estudio MN) y Restauración de la Iglesia de Guacarhue MN (Arias Arquitectos). Entre 2009 y 2011 integra el equipo docente de la Universidad de Chile en los cursos iniciales de Taller y actualmente forma parte de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM) en Taller, Acondicionamiento Ambiental y Diseño y Construcción Participativa.