U life: Centro Habitacional Universitario de Tunja

Abstract

Tunja has received on countless occasions the name of "university city", however, it does not have the features to receive this title, it is for this reason that the project arises as a response to the deficiency in terms of university residences equipped with different services designed and designed for the floating student population of the municipality, this being one of the most notorious characteristics of the cities called university. The project seeks to provide the city of Tunja with a sector characterized as university, which guarantees basic services for the stay of the user, in addition to benefiting them with spaces that complement life outside the university; U Life: Tunja University Housing Center, arises from promoting the denomination of “Tunja as University City” providing the floating student population of the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC), Universidad Santo Tomás Sectional Tunja (USTA Tunja) and the Universidad de Boyacá (Uniboyacá), the convenience of being able to access higher education without leaving aside the possibility of obtaining an adequate and integral service for the life of the student outside the academic environment. It is thus that the project in addition to bridging housing space, seeks to complement it with leisure spaces, study and in general for the use of free time, in addition to having services for the basic needs of the student, In the same way, the project integrates the social, the environmental and the economic to put it towards sustainability.