Moya Vicuña, Susana
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Moya Vicuña, Susana
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Quito
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susanamoya@uti.edu.ec
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57466728100

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Vernacular Passive Strategies for Sustainable Houses in the Andean Ecuadorian Context

2022 , Ormaza M.V. , Moya Vicuña, Susana , Monar E.

Sustainability and thermal comfort in developing countries could be hard to achieve due to the high cost of standardized construction methods, such as reinforced concrete and steel framed structures. As a result, most dwellings ignore the basic principles of livability and sustainability promoting a high demand of external construction resources and using elevated quantities of energy during its operative life. The purpose of this paper is to analyze passive and vernacular strategies for typical active thermal comfort as alternatives for low rise housing in the Andean region of Ecuador by using rammed earth walls as thermal mass elements. This research aims to reach the minimum comfort levels stablished by INER and ASHRAE 90.1 envelope requirements for climate zone 4C (temperate continental). © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

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The extensive green facade as a means of production and recovery of biodiversity in urban highland areas of Ecuador

2023 , Moya Vicuña, Susana

Green infrastructures have great potential to promote a productive system, which allows the development of a circular metabolism, as well as the protection and conservation of a biodiversity part. The present observation-based study seeks to analyze the potential productive and biodiversity benefits of a "traditional" extensive green wall located in Conocoto parish in Quitós city, Ecuador. For this purpose, the characteristics of the environment, the plant, and the conditions of its development are described in detail. The results provide recommendations for the design, maintenance, and application of extensive green walls in neotropical mountain climatic conditions, through the use of endemic Andean plants of a productive type, in this case the Passiflora mollisima, also commonly called "Taxo". © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Sustainable Cities, Rescue of Original Construction Methods and Use of Technology. A literary Review

2022 , Moya Vicuña, Susana

The concept of sustainability and even more so applied to the city is quite broad, however in general we could say that they are those whose planning and growth considers current challenges, but also understands and recognizes those next to appear, such as the upsurge of climate change, the growth and migration of the human population in and towards cities, based on which it designs a model based on economic and social development, thinking about the importance of people and their needs. In recent years, several sustainable cities have appeared that are proposed as a model, many of these cities have not only looked to the future with new technologies that offer us efficient systems, but have also looked to the past and have found vernacular architecture of their environments, practical solutions of a passive nature, however, although these model cities can serve as an example and even as a hotbed for the development of techniques and technologies that lead us to a sustainable city, they are not models that can be adapted in an intact way in any territory, but must be reinterpreted to achieve optimal functioning among different conditions of another territory. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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