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This proposal aims the restructuring of the Cumbaya campus of San Francisco de Quito University. An urban exploration is developed in a master plan for the city an its architectural development and composition of each element, makes up the master plan.

The proposal starts from the interpretation of the current state of the place. The campus was established in 1980, on the suburbs of Quito, as a rural campus installed on a local farm of Cumbaya. The architectural characteristics of the farm are found to this day, including the representative wall that separates the university and the city. The master plan aims to switch from the current state of a rural campus into an urban campus University. As the main strategy, the articulation of public and private areas is proposed as an extension from the street to the campus through public spaces.

The strategy for the development of each architectural object starts from the interpretation of the university quadrant. This approach analyzed from its etymology, and its application in British and American campuses can be defined as: the composition of a public space that responds to axial conditions wich is articulated through exterior spaces made up of buildings from different programmatic uses. The conformation of the Art and Architecture quadrant is proposed through a building that finds its point of articulation between the city and the university through its most public spaces, the exhibitions. The school becomes the face of the university due to its privileged location, and forms the first meeting space between the public conditions of the city and the university quadrants proposed by the master plan and the formal configuration of the new building.