FAU - Cris Barra

Looking back to the beginning of this blog, I can recognise that I never had any interest to make a personal blog on this website, but now I can see that I was wrong in my opinion. My favourite part in the making of this blog was the themes that we talked about, like some related to my program (Architecture), remember some pieces of my life story and the hobbies where I'm involved, like the Vexillology and the Archery. Sometime I've disliked to forget some words and concepts to get a good redaction, that makes me a little dissapointed, I've liked all the things from this blog, every week I had the chance to tell a brief introduction of myself. To be honest the most difficult part in the making of this blog series was my inspiration shortage, that's was the cause of my slow work in the blogs sometimes, but when finally I get the inspiration, I can be very fast and finish my blog in time. This 11 Blogs was a very interesting experience, I really enjoyed blogging i...

Since I was a Child, I've remember one in special, La Tercera, this newspaper has a direct rivalry against "El Mercurio". At their origins, was a evening edition of the newspaper called "La Hora", but these newspaper was replaced by "La Tercera", by the decades was orientated for the middle-class readers in a tabloid format newspaper. In 2003 "La Tercera" adopted its current format, the idea of the directives from the newspaper was a way to reach a high-class public, adopting a more formal language and also a minimalist design, with all these changes they got a more competitive position against "El Mercurio". Now it's administrated by "Grupo COPESA", also owners of "La Cuarta" and the free distribution newspaper "La Hora". Personally, my real interest for this newpaper was one of their supplements, the famous homework helper called "Icarito". This supplement was the p...

This subject is called "Investigación del Entorno", that´s an introduction of Urbanism, one of the fundamental fields of study in the Architecture. We must learn to understand all the topics that make up the city, its problems and find ways to solve them. The first efforts to find a perfect city planning comes from Ancient Greece by the Architect "Hippodamus from Miletus" and it's invention, the "Grid City Plan" The main topic for this semester was to make a research about the route CH-66, known as "Fruit Road" and it's impact in 7 comunnes from three Chilean Regions (Malloa, San Vicente, Peumo, Las Cabras, San Pedro, Santo Domingo and San Antonio) The research was divided in seven groups, one for each commune, I've selected San Antonio, at this moment, we're in the final stages. looking for a sustainable solution to find a balance between the growing of the poputation and the volume of freight that will assume the port i...