Students at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at UNPHU participate in the transversal multidisciplinary week and make exhibition in Paradise

Creating links with Paradise communities in the National District from architecture, urbanism, art, and history. 

Students at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), performed a Social Parenthesis. This is a multidisciplinary transversal week in which they participated in an experience of immersion, production, and socio-spatial understanding of the neighborhood Paraiso, from art, history, urbanism and architectural design. 

In its first version, the Social Parenthesis, understood the uplift of different blocks of Paraiso, a neighborhood that presents architectural features, social and interesting urban contrasts, since there coexist different social classes sectorized in the sub-neighborhoods Ensanche Paraiso, Los Platanitos and Kennedy.

These contrasts were studied from different exercises. The students were accompanied by teachers Naila Rodríguez and Susana María Shalante in the realization of urban sketches to capture the architectural diversity in the different blocks. 

In addition, Professor Jorge Marte oversaw reconstituting the history of the neighborhood and its urbanization from 1955 to the present, while Professor Darysleida Sosa Valdez and the students conducted a series of interviews to determine the urban mobilities and life stories of the inhabitants. Finally, Professor Gilkauris Rojas leaded the students in the erection of facades and the climate analysis. 

This Social Parenthesis began on January 31 and ended on February 5 with an exhibition in the parking lot of the prayer house Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, where students exchanged the results of the exercises with the inhabitants. This socialization allowed a first approach with these communities, who received the students satisfactorily and encouraged a feedback/discussion process. 

The exhibition was attended by about 100 people and by the councilor Liz Mieses, the president of the Board of Neighbors of the Platanitos, Mr. José Miguel Colón and the director of the School of Architecture and Urbanism of UNPHU, Heidi De Moya Simó. 

The students collaborating in Design IV were: Alberto José Delgado, Ivanna Alduez Dipp, Eddi Javier Medina, Shailyn Esmeralda Santana, María Paula Cruz, Camila Alexandra Tiburcio, Mairelys Restituño, Alanis Tejada, Allain Omar Molina, Rebeka Martínez, Anyelina Cordero, Venus Arizaira Torres, Billy Yelissa Méndez, Ann Marie Hernández, Mery Sheril Aybar, Mariloy Santana, Eliana Marie Fernández, Xabrina Valdez, Alejandra Cairo Toribio, Carolina Rodríguez, Jessica Paola Reola noso, Montserrat Albino, María Rodríguez, Bryan Santana and Ainoa Vega and the students of Panorama de las Artes.

The collaborating teachers were: Naila Rodríguez, Susana María Shalante, Jorge Marte, Darysleida Sosa V. and Gilkauris Rojas. For their part Darysleida Sosa Valdez and Luisa de la Rosa, supported in the logistics and materials.