Juan Manuel Santiago-Zaragoza

University of Granada | UGR · Department of Architectural Graphic Expression and Engineering

En la actualidad, dejar a las futuras generaciones un medio ambiente saludable, no agotando los recursos naturales, se ha convertido en una de las principales preocupaciones de la humanidad. La vivienda es una de las necesidades primarias del ser humano. Nos hace sentirnos seguros y a refugio. Sin embargo las ciudades no pueden seguir creciendo ind...

La legislación vigente conforma la profesión de Arquitecto Técnico como profesión regulada cuyo ejercicio requiere estar en posesión de correspondiente título oficial de Grado obtenido, en este caso, de acuerdo con lo previsto en el artículo 12.9 del referido Real Decreto 1393/2007, conforme a las condiciones establecidas en el Acuerdo de Consejo d...

Spanish Islamic cities stagnated or declined after 1492. Because of the expulsion of Jews and Moors, despite the repopulation policies, they seemed to “petrify” their size. The uninhabited houses and the suburbs disappeared. The extension and population of the main Muslim cities, Almeria, Seville, Toledo, Valencia, Zaragoza, tended to decrease. Mur...

Eugène Henard publicó sus Études entre 1902 y 1909. En ellos exponía los problemas urbanos que se estaban desarrollando en la ciudad de París a la vez que ofrecía soluciones de aspecto futurista. Es su propuesta titulada calle subterránea, incluida en la conferencia las ciudades del porvenir, la que hizo que la urbanista Choay lo calificara como “t...

The Andalusian medieval citadels are walled enclosures that, strategically placed on hills, still continue showing their defensive function inside the city and the surrounding territory. There are still good examples in the south of Spain, especially concentrated in the last territories of Al-Andalus. To the north of the old Nasrid kingdom of Grana...

The Palace of the Counts of Padul is the most emblematic building of Padul, Province of Granada in Spain, being one of the most remarkable of the region of the Valley of Lecrín. It is a building of undoubted historical value, declared of Cultural Interest, maximum level of protection of the Spanish legislation in historical heritage. In spite of th...

Teaching methodologies of the subjects of architecture and urbanism have evolved in the late years along with the advances endorsed by specialists in pedagogy and psychology. The number of their followers is increasing. However, it is difficult to find, within these fields, studies that deepen taking into account the opinion of the agents that mean...

This paper proposes a methodology for monitoring of timber beams retrofitted with CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer) via the acoustic emission technique (AE). The work proposes the use of multi-resonant sensors linearly distributed along the element. The spectral energy of the located AE events is proposed to separate the signals into two group...

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is considered one of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance. His studies developed advanced ideas for his time, even in its most unknown aspects, such as: architecture, urban planning and restoration. He never studied formally, but he learned everything due to his method of observation, the study of other treatises a...

The small and unique building of "Las Escuelas de San Isidoro", erected in Padul at the beginning of the 20th century, is a clear example of the new architectural type of the innovative educational model created in Granada by Father Manjón. That model supposed a radical change for the methods of the Spanish teaching and it was the origin of the cur...

Second half of the 20th century: The Spanish rural landscape changes with the imposing profile of Silos. In the urban edge, next to the railroad, they are risen competing in height with church steeples. Today they are inseparable elements of the image of many peoples of cereal geography of any region of Spain. They are consequence of the autarkic e...

The Palace of the Counts of Padul is the most emblematic building of Padul, Province of Granada in Spain, being one of the most remarkable buildings of the region of the Valley of Lecrín. It is a building of undoubted historical value. It is classified as one of Cultural Interest, which means maximum level of protection of the Spanish legislation i...

The medina of Tetuan has suffered a steady growing since its founding at the end of xv century by Sidi al-Mandary. It has always followed the Islamic city rules and included those works carried away by the sultan. This process had two breaking moments, that of the occupation of the city by the Spanish army in 1860 and the establishment of the Spani...

Mellah, en Marruecos, es el barrio amurallado de algunas ciudades donde fue obligada a residir la minoría judía, en un contexto musulmán dominante, con libertad religiosa y cierta autonomía. De origen y características diversas, todos se aíslan de la ciudad, aunque reproducen su misma estructura urbana. Fueron efecto del ejercicio del poder en el M...

La presencia judía en Tetuán se inició de manera paralela a la refundación de la ciudad por parte de al-Mandari en 1484-85. La convivencia de judíos y musulmanes estuvo regida por el Pacto de Omar. La comunidad sefardí, representada en todos los ámbitos de la escala social, participó de los avatares del destierro, sin discriminación alguna en cuant...

Mellah, in Morocco, is the walled quarter of some cities where the Jewish minority was forced to live in a dominant Muslim context even though they had religious freedom and quite autonomy. From different origins and with various features, all of them were isolated from the city, but they recreated the same urban structure. They showed the exercise...

Architecture and Islamic urbanism have been the subject of intense academic interest for decades, however, the Jewish neighbourhoods, which were a vital component of cities with a Muslim majority in the Maghreb, have been ignored, or have been scarcely studied. Few researches related tend to approach the study of these minority neighbourhoods as is...

Casanueva, a small village in the north limit of the Vega of Granada, gets water provided by its millenary network of irrigating channels. Centuries have gone through the building object of this project, a silent witness of memories: The Farmhouse of Casanueva, known by its neighbours as “Tower of the Jerónimos”. Researching the place, its toponymy...

div class="et_pb_row et_pb_row_4"> Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) encarna el ideal humanista del saber universal y es considerado como uno de los personajes más significativos del Renacimiento Europeo. Su faceta más conocida es la de pintor, pero probablemente se trata del mayor talento en múltiples disciplinas que se haya dado en la historia de la...

Incluye resumen en inglés Tesis Univ. Granada. Departamento de Expresión Gráfica, Arquitectónica y en la Ingeniería. Leída el 18 de diciembre de 2006