On Friday March 5th, just days after the occurrence of the earthquake that struck our country in a devastating way, I was working with groups of student volunteers, who were cadastral damage situation in our community surrounding the university. When we were distributing the tasks, I approach the Director of the School of Architecture and tells me that since I'm in the Region of O'Higgins, should I address Peralillo commune on an advance mission of the University for see what the situation and we can carry out the process of overcoming the emergency. Thus it was that same day at about 14:00 we left a group of professionals different disciplines, university officials and students Peralillo. Advanced corporate
USACH, was headed by the Pro - Chancellor of Student Affairs, Don Manuel Arrieta and Don Pedro Palominos Director of the Office of Quality Assurance of Usach, was established in the commune of Peralillo, Colchagua Province Region of O "higgins at 17:45 pm on Friday, March 5, 2010.
immediately above, we develop a meeting with the Mayor of the Commune Peralillo, Mr. Gerardo Cornejo in order to get a first impression of the former village on the most important aspects to consider in a potential aid that could carry out the USACH.
On the issue of urban and constructive aspects, the first necessity that manifests the Lord Mayor, is conducting a survey of the deteriorating situation in the buildings affected by the earthquake, so you have information based on repair requirements in cases where possible, and technical information relating to situations where it should reach as far insurmountable declare some buildings to proceed with demolition. Includes
concern, urban issues related to equity identity that had the district, referring to those buildings which were somehow part of local identity for which it expressed its concern to rescue the maximum of these they had technically viable to rebuild.
USACH, was headed by the Pro - Chancellor of Student Affairs, Don Manuel Arrieta and Don Pedro Palominos Director of the Office of Quality Assurance of Usach, was established in the commune of Peralillo, Colchagua Province Region of O "higgins at 17:45 pm on Friday, March 5, 2010.
immediately above, we develop a meeting with the Mayor of the Commune Peralillo, Mr. Gerardo Cornejo in order to get a first impression of the former village on the most important aspects to consider in a potential aid that could carry out the USACH.
On the issue of urban and constructive aspects, the first necessity that manifests the Lord Mayor, is conducting a survey of the deteriorating situation in the buildings affected by the earthquake, so you have information based on repair requirements in cases where possible, and technical information relating to situations where it should reach as far insurmountable declare some buildings to proceed with demolition. Includes
concern, urban issues related to equity identity that had the district, referring to those buildings which were somehow part of local identity for which it expressed its concern to rescue the maximum of these they had technically viable to rebuild.
This communal land register should cover both urban localities in the commune, Peralillo center, and Population. This last area is particularly sensitive because it was widely skyline typical character, which was even zoned in the proposed Community Master Plan is still in process, and unfortunately based on the information provided later by management professionals Works, the damage was overwhelming.
From this initial information, I proceeded to make a general visual inspection of the surroundings of the village center, which was later supplemented in a meeting with the team in charge of the Directorate of Municipal Works, headed by the Director, Civil Constructor Arturo Mujica Architecture and Andrés Pérez graduate .
The information provided by these professionals, reinforces the point made by the Mayor, and limits the size of the area must make the register of buildings with some kind of damage, which is summarized in about 15 blocks reviews and twenty most of the perimeter, in the case of population would have 8 acres and a few others critical for damage inspection.
To carry out the land would be required to have teams of architects, engineers and students with ability to identify structural problems mostly works carried out in adobe, and to a lesser extent reinforced masonry.
To carry out the task, it requires at least five task forces, in the manner of those set up to address the land of Central Station, with a professional in charge of one or two of them, and consisting of 4 or 5 students equipped and third years upwards. Noted generically as the professional in charge, as are essential to engineers and architects are able to provide certainty about the structural conditions some complex cases, given the requirement to visualize the complicated rescue of some buildings, but have some value for the identity of the community. These five teams should be a minimum of three to a maximum of five days to make a painstaking task. For this purpose, the district offers a boarding facility that would provide shelter during the stay, which would be supplemented by food that may be provided by non-university institutions generate load to the already overstressed borough.
That's how I met on Monday March 8 at about 21:30 pm in the town of Peralillo, this is approximately to 250 kilometers southwest of Santiago. The disaster here is enormous, perhaps less impressive at first sight that the people devastated by the Tsunami, but no less affected in a "democratic." I say this because curiously the middle of the population are most affected, but not instead the more modest homes that have more light but resistant to seismic shock.
From this initial information, I proceeded to make a general visual inspection of the surroundings of the village center, which was later supplemented in a meeting with the team in charge of the Directorate of Municipal Works, headed by the Director, Civil Constructor Arturo Mujica Architecture and Andrés Pérez graduate .
The information provided by these professionals, reinforces the point made by the Mayor, and limits the size of the area must make the register of buildings with some kind of damage, which is summarized in about 15 blocks reviews and twenty most of the perimeter, in the case of population would have 8 acres and a few others critical for damage inspection.
To carry out the land would be required to have teams of architects, engineers and students with ability to identify structural problems mostly works carried out in adobe, and to a lesser extent reinforced masonry.
To carry out the task, it requires at least five task forces, in the manner of those set up to address the land of Central Station, with a professional in charge of one or two of them, and consisting of 4 or 5 students equipped and third years upwards. Noted generically as the professional in charge, as are essential to engineers and architects are able to provide certainty about the structural conditions some complex cases, given the requirement to visualize the complicated rescue of some buildings, but have some value for the identity of the community. These five teams should be a minimum of three to a maximum of five days to make a painstaking task. For this purpose, the district offers a boarding facility that would provide shelter during the stay, which would be supplemented by food that may be provided by non-university institutions generate load to the already overstressed borough.
That's how I met on Monday March 8 at about 21:30 pm in the town of Peralillo, this is approximately to 250 kilometers southwest of Santiago. The disaster here is enormous, perhaps less impressive at first sight that the people devastated by the Tsunami, but no less affected in a "democratic." I say this because curiously the middle of the population are most affected, but not instead the more modest homes that have more light but resistant to seismic shock.
As Needed professionals and students, ultimately took place on 15 students, engineers, architects and technology and I as a teacher in charge. Here we applied a speech that was our Director, Charles Richards, who told the boys: "Here dogs are needed beach, not chalet cats", and indeed the group showed more than that if they were "dog beach" ...
with the boys in engineering and architecture that make up the team task, we were doing a survey of the situation, was a slow but had an added value: the people grateful to be visited and to hear, but the kids had nothing to do in terms of mitigating their losses. As we pointed him to some "are not part of the problem or the solution", only the "finding." It was very important that that was to pay attention to complex personal. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe university is backing a plan to leave psychological victims for four to six months, and apparently we should set some parameters for the installation of some emergency housing. At least that's what I told the Rector of our University on Tuesday, 9 came to us in our mission and stated that the Director of Architecture raise this concern, because they are thinking of supporting not only the Municipality of Peralillo but from this, project its restorative action to other communities in the affected province of Colchagua.
seems to me a challenge very interesting, but we go step by step. Today specifying the tasks of the day and tomorrow we'll see.
installed in a building that was a boarding school for children who are in unsuitable conditions .... at least we have some cabins with mattresses where we threw our sleeping bags s, but the bathrooms need to share with everyone, girls and boys and stand in line to get only cold water .... of course, has thankfully very hot, so at the end of the evening comforting a cold shower in the morning .... but not thinking. The power flows through a public agency that takes care of that during the year to serve children in their schools, with trays of food simple but good prepared and kills the hunger of the children.
They have an enormous enthusiasm and little sleep ... sing, joke, they take their beer and give the fuck up late and so relax the tensions of the day .... I try to sleep in between ... my skin is not was to endure even more so late the next day knowing that we expected a long and difficult day ... well, but that the boys were not intimidated, good for them.
Well, that's what we were watching, waiting to fulfill the task committed in good shape and look good standing in the attempt.
Thursday 11 is held incommunicado since before the last big shake-up, and I could not talk to anyone via cell phone, came the jolt, the truth was scary ... in a house Peralillo Population affected a consultant architect of the municipality and the hostess, Mrs. Matilde Labarca, an old charming, brave as her own, but resented as two or three blows to the second seismic , informs them that I would sit on the grass of center field. He no longer knew if they were my legs or is that still the tremors because they held me up, finished the three sitting on the grass waiting to happen as hard. I have to admit that we were very frightened because we were on the inside of houses with severe damage and was unpredictable what happened. Given these conditions will bring the boys which was suspended tasks by that afternoon and reverting to the normal pseudo ..... that allowed us to finish in more than 90% the task. The first life ...
The tremors continue, I went to Sunday 14 with my children Rancagua Francisco Dominga and lunch with my sister Silvia for his birthday. Continued to shake, I came and when he got on the bus to the town of Buin, a traffic jam on the road, because traffic lights were off knot ... we find out that there was a general power cut from Taltal to Chiloe .. ...
The arrival in Santiago was scary .... all dark and crowded street .... which came from the interprovincial buses like me and all passengers who had to evacuate the subway .... not encourage me to walk because I was scared .... what can I say ... I have taken some appreciation to my physical integrity these days .... And as I have a little angel watching over me ... in an unguarded moment I see a taxi without passengers confused and I grabbed the door handle and say if it is unoccupied, tell me where I go, I point ... another will asks the same thing but a destiny that gave me confidence and agrees to get a girl ami frightened to death .. I said republic, republic ... and I like that about my journey I tell the driver to take us both. This was done and makes it to my entire department .... light candles for lighting and energy come to expect. Was becoming slowly. Until finally after about an hour .... I have seen some news ... but I realize that I no longer hear appeals drama and confusion ... So just to hear noise when I write these lines leave a film on TV ... Agghh Stallone! . At least we have to preserve the mood.
Another element that has spiced the post-quake problems, as well as misunderstandings, indecision, and the classic slow tendency to "lower the profile 'of the facts, is that unfortunately we are in this slum sloppy. ... that technology taking third-generation telecommunications and the most expensive of America, fail to The first apparent difficulty ....
And we gave him, because this is just the beginning of a story, which portrays in my view what has been happening and what is to come for the restoration.
Dr. Carlos Muñoz Parra
Architect
Carlos Mu? Oz Parra Doctor Architect 
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