Testimonio de Sergio Saavedra

Chicos, sigue un testimonio de uno de nustros antiguos alumnos de master.

Así podrán tener una idea do que hacemos en el CILS desde 2012,  

" Antes del Máster siempre trabajé en despachos de arquitectura, en los cuales se tenían en cuenta las demás ingenierías involucradas en los proyectos, sin embargo, no se profundizada en ellas. 

El máster no solo me ayudó a entender y aplicar mejor los conceptos de diseño sostenible, sino a tener noción de cómo las ingenierías también pueden contribuir al ahorro de energía y generar un proyecto cuya construcción y operación sea más amigable con el medio ambiente. No solo a través de clases sino también de visitas y conversaciones con profesores de diversas nacionalidades y amplia experiencia en la materia. La convivencia con compañeros de diversas partes del mundo también tiene una gran valor agregado y cosidero que sumó mucho en mi crecimiento profesional.

El máster también me sirvió como motivación principal para lograr la acreditación internacional de  "LEED Green Associate", otorgada  por el USGBI (Green Building Certification Institute". Fui una de los primeros profesionales en lograrla en Perú y es una certificación reconocida internacionalmente. A la fecha en Perú hay alrededor de 30 edificios con certificación LEED y he tenido la suerte de poder participar en dos de ellos.

Actualmente me encuentro trabajando, desde hace más de 4 años en la empresa "Constructores Interamericanos SAC" . La empresa es una Inmobiliaria / Constructora parte del Grupo Fierro (Capital español) con operaciones en Perú, Colombia y Venezuela.

Ocupo el puesto de Jefe de Proyectos en el área de Gerencia de Desarrollo. Estoy a cargo de la revisión y optimización de todas las especialidades que comprenden los proyectos de Vivienda, Oficina, Comercio e Industria.

Para poder ocupar este puesto ha sido de mucha ayuda lo verificado en el Máster pues demanda conceptos de ahorro de energías y criterios de diseño amigables con el medio ambiente. También la empresa me brindó la responsabilidad de elaborar y ser co-autor de la "Guía de construcción verde" para procesos de construcción amigables con el medio ambiente en nuestros proyectos.

Finalmente, considero importante mencionar que siempre que lo requiero puedo consultar las guías de estudio con las que se impartían las clases ya que luego de más de 5 años de terminado el programa sigo encontrando herramientas que me ayudan. 

Saludos "

Sergio Saavedra Sheen - Peru - MASEE

V INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND CULTURAL DAY

In the week of May 2 to 5, we celebrate the week of the Feast of LaSalle, in honor of our patron Saint John Baptist de La Salle.

It is an atypical week, where every day the Student Council and all the different entities and clubs of our campus organise activities to entertain all the students in the campus.

As it is already a tradition, the International Club La Salle (CILS), organise  an event where the international students of the campus had the opportunity to show their own culture to the entire university, like a teleportation. Each country organised a “stand”  with images, food and drinks typical of their countries of origin. That is, which stand had the objective to be a mini-atmosphere of  the country. As a motivating factor, we made the gastronomic sample as a competition, so the judges valued the decor, the quantity of dishes and of course, the quality of the food.

This year the participation of the students was incredible. People from Lebanon, Mexico, Venezuela, Guatemala, Ecuador, Catalonia, U.S.A., U.K., Japón, Thailand, Peru, Norway, France and of course Spain, everybody making a great food and beautiful stand. During the event, we could travel around flavours and flavours all around the world.

Was possible to start the journey tasting a typical English Tea, after, jumping to Asia Stand, taste the space Pad Thai, than you could jump to Mexico to try their Guacamole and to finish the meal, a quickly pass on Lebanon stand to a desert that taste roses. They were all amazing, made with love and care. The decoration of the stands was very good, with flags, typical images, instruments and games of each country. 

After a long discussion, various flavours, a lot of food and drink, our judge sit to have a long discussion about the winners. This time was almost impossible to choose the prizes, all the food were amazing, all the stands were beautiful and made by love. This year the judge choose to put only two places, but each one with a tie.  

FIRST PLACE : ASIA AND MEXICO

SECOND PLACE: VENEZUELA AND LEBANON

We want to thank all the people who helped in the organization of the stands and the logistics of the exhibition, in addition to all the attendees. We are waiting for you next year in the 6th edition.

Fallas de Valencia 2017

We leave Barcelona on the morning of March 18, to the small and beautiful village of Peñiscola, a typical Mediterranean village, with white houses and a friendly atmosphere. The village have his own peculiarity because in the highest part of the city is the castle of Pope Luna.

The castle where Benedict lived from 1417 until his death in 1423 was restored, improved and new walls were added in 1960 when Anthony Mann's film El Cid was partially filmed there. The town and castle are now a popular tourist attraction.

After strolling through all the small streets and knowing all the magic of the town, we continue by bus to the main objective, the city of the flames that burn at night, Valencia.

We begin to know Valencia, by one of the most important sites of the city, the complex of the City of Arts and Sciences of the Valencian projected by the architect Santiago Calatrava.

We walked from street to street, in search of the best “falla”. We find small and large “fallas”, simple and complex, of all possible topics. 

San José (Saint Joseph), the patron saint of carpenters, is the official focus for the festival. It all started back in the Middle Ages when carpenters used to hang up planks of wood called ‘parots’ in the winter to support their candles when they were working. At the onset of spring these pieces of wood would be burned as a way of celebrating the end of dark, winter working days. After a while they began to put clothing on the ‘parot’ and then started to try to make it identifiable with a well-known local personality. These became the forerunners of the contemporary ‘ninots’, the enormous cardboard, wooden, polyurethane, Styrofoam, cork, plaster and papier-maché figures of today. The authorities later decided to link the burning of the ‘parots’ with Saint Joseph’s Day to try to stop it getting out of control!.

San José (Saint Joseph), the patron saint of carpenters, is the official focus for the festival. It all started back in the Middle Ages when carpenters used to hang up planks of wood called ‘parots’ in the winter to support their candles when they were working. At the onset of spring these pieces of wood would be burned as a way of celebrating the end of dark, winter working days. After a while they began to put clothing on the ‘parot’ and then started to try to make it identifiable with a well-known local personality. These became the forerunners of the contemporary ‘ninots’, the enormous cardboard, wooden, polyurethane, Styrofoam, cork, plaster and papier-maché figures of today. The authorities later decided to link the burning of the ‘parots’ with Saint Joseph’s Day to try to stop it getting out of control!

These Faults were evolving and taking on a critical and ironic sense, showing above all in the fallero monuments, scenes that reproduced censurable social facts and social criticism but always with sense of humor. Throughout the day, we went walking, eating, drinking, chatting and discovering Valencia, but when night came, the atmosphere of the city changed and suddenly, began the most awaited moment by all: THE NIGHT OF FIREWORKS. That is the moment when they do a big show of fireworks for 20 minutes. After this amazing fire scene, we went to the bus and come back to Barcelona to get a rest and have energy to start the week again !

Thanks for everybody who joined us !!!!

GAUDÍ ROUTE

Sunday 04 of March, we had the planto provide a "Gaudian" experience for our exchange students.

We started at 9h30min at Plaza Catalunya, where we had an little explanation about the Cerdá Plan and about the “La Manzana de la Discordia".

The Manzana de la Discordia or Block of Discord is the name given to a section Passeig de Gràcia in the Eixample district of Barcelona.

The Block of Discord is so named because in less than 100 metres we find a major building by each of Barcelona's trio of star Modernist architects, Casa Lleó Morera by Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Casa Amatller by Josep Puig i Cadafalch and Casa Batlló by Antoni Gaudí. They are not only in very contrasting styles but are also considered signature pieces by each of the architects, so the name also hints at the rivalry between the three men.

The Block of Discord is located on Passeig de Gràcia between Carrer Consell de Cent and Carrer Aragó and why did the citizens of Barcelona baptize that block with the name of “Manzana de la Discordia"?  What they intended was to make a resemblance with an episode of Greek mythology that tells us the wedding of Tethys and Peleus, to which were invited all the gods except Eris, the goddess of Discord. Very angry, she presented herself at the banquet, leaving on the table of presents an apple of gold with the inscription Kallisti (for the most beautiful). The apple was claimed by Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. To avoid arguments, Zeus proposed that a trial should be made by Paris, Prince of Troy, to decide who the golden apple would be. The three goddesses tried to convince him, and finally Paris gave the apple of gold to Aphrodite, who had promised her the love of the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen, wife of the King of Sparta.

There are a number of similarities between this episode in Greek mythology and the existing rivalry among modernist architects and, in fact, the rivalry among their patrons to have the fairest building on the block on Passeig de Gràcia. As the word manzana can mean both city block and apple in Spanish, further parallels can be drawn between the Greek myth and Barcelona’s architecture.

After walking all the Passeig de Gracia, we walk through the Eixample until arriving in the most important work of Antonio Gaudí, the Sagrada Familia. Contrary to what many people believe, the construction of the Holy Family began before Gaudí was actually involved in the process. In 1883, Gaudí took over the project and transformed it according to its architectural style, combining Gothic with forms of Art Nouveau. So the true church building as it is today began with the intervention of Gaudí in 1883 and is still under construction with the plan to finish in 2026.

After the magical experience through the enchanted forest of Gaudí we went to taste another atmosphere of him, the Parc Güell.

The history of the park is that the rich man, Eusebi Güell commissioned to Gaudí the project of making an urbanisation for well-to-do families in a large estate that had acquired in the area popularly known as Montaña Pelada. Its situation was unbeatable, in a healthy environment and with a splendid view of the sea and the plain of Barcelona. In the urbanisation, some 60 parcels with a triangular shape were foreseen, with a complex network of roads, viaducts and stairs that saved the topography of the land. The construction conditions were very restrictive, since only one-sixth of the plot could be built, and the height and location of the houses could not obstruct the view of the sea or deprive the neighbours of the sun.

Gaudí respected the vegetation existing in the old estate, like the carob trees and the olive trees. As for the introduction of new species, it chose Mediterranean plants with low water demand. 

Was a beautiful and cultural sunny Sunday, that we learned about that Barcelona architectures and had a great time together !!!  

Thanks for all !

WELCOME TAPAS 2nd SEMESTER

During the night of Friday, 17^th of September, we went to meet for real our new big family.

The evening began at the La Tiza Bar, in one of the best bohemian neighbourhood. In the beginning, the atmosphere was a little bit quite, until we start to know for real each one. We were almost 30 people at the bar, people from North of Europe, West of Europe, Asia, Latin America, United States, from different countries but with the same interest, to get new friends from all around the world.

We stayed until midnight, tasting typical tapas, pintxos, drinking beer and cubatas, and all the magical moment was registered by the good look of our new brother and friend, Vinícius Hashrama. 

We talked about everything from policies to jokes, from asian culture to latin culture, about countries, people, experiences, wishes and everything that comes to our mind.

Unfortunately, after midnight we had to leave the bar, but the good time was not over yet. We are living in one of the most night city in the world, Barcelona, and specifically those days the weather was perfect and we decided to walk until find some good club to dance until the first sunshine.

BICICULTURAL

One week ago, new international students arrived in our university to stay for a semester. Is always good to arrive in a city that you don't know and go for a ride with someone that can explain the history of this new place that you're visiting.

Thats was exactly what we did on Sunday, 12nd of February, we did a guided bike ride through Barcelona.

At 9h30min AM we meet everybody in the Born neighbourhood, where we could rent a bike and meet out guide, the Architect Jaume Carné.

Around 10AM, everyone already had their bikes regulated, all tires are full of air and the lazy of Sunday's was out of our body in this morning.

The first stop was in the monument of Colom, where we start to know a little bit of the history of Barcelona. Jaume start to teach us about the romans, the wars, the old city of Barcelona and about the small villages that were not integrated in the city, like Grácia, Sant Andreu and La Sagrera.

After a quickly panorama of the history, we take our bikes and ride through Parallell Avenue until arrive in the heart of one of the patios of the Example. In this stop we stayed for a while, because now Jaume told us about all the urbanism plan, made by the Catalan engineer Ildefons Cerdà.

His plan was to unify all the small village around Barcelona with the center of the city. In the 1850's the city wall strait-jacket was demolished to allow the expansion of Ildefons Cerdà's l'Eixample. Cerdà's plan was the first example of urban planning and was heavily influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx and other social thinkers of the time.

The l'Eixample was planned using an extensive grid-iron pattern. The development rapidly spread to connect Barcelona to the outlying towns, which were incorporated into the city at the turn of the century.

The area of Gracia, for example, was Spain's nineth-largest city before it was swallowed by Barcelona's growth. The rigid blocks of Cerdà's grid give way here to narrow streets arranged haphazardly, and the change in atmosphere is striking. Many streets in Gracia consist of small, two-storey buildings, and a series of small squares.

Around 2PM, we already had visited the most important patios, heard the important facts of the history and out new students already had an idea about the city, that why we stopped in some bar to take a beer and eat the spanish traditional omelet, tortillas !

CHRISTMAS DINNER

When the end of the year approximates, the leaves of the trees flies, the wind increases and the cold comes to remain, however we did  not leave that these factors takes our so beautiful and international energy away. 

We know that the cold bring with them the desire to stay at home, but the heat brings joy for all, then why not do a dinner with people of all continents so that we can know us, heat us and transform a night of winter in almost a piece of intercontinental summer ?

We transform our 17 of December during the night in our big special peace of international culture. At 10PM we meet all students in the restaurante Tapas Locas to start our Christmas Dinner.

Everything started with a perfect energy. The beautiful feeling of love was in the air, even if a cold breeze, our love make the place so warm like a house of a grandmother. After talking, eating a lot of food, drinking, and eating the desert we almost could not have energy do to nothing, but like a big family we seek energy in the depths of the soul and went to shake our body in Opium Club.

We stayed dancing and sweating until the sun shine again in the horizon.

THANK YOU EVERYBODY !!!!!!