Library

The catalog surpasses 42,000 items including monographs, periodicals, reference works, theses, maps, standards, microforms, slides, and audiovisual material. More than 120 active journal titles.
Subjects: The main topics covered by this collection are: Art, architecture, construction, urban planning, urban law, design, and exact sciences.

Modeling Laboratory

Attached to the Center, it has a total area of 210m².

It is equipped with: laser cutting system, pantograph, 3D plotter, shears, circular saws, and various tools for carpentry work. There is an 8m² room with an extractor fan for using chemicals.

It also has an annex for 23 workstations with computers, dedicated to programs for creating infographics and 3D designs.

Construction, Structures, and Installations Laboratories

Attached to the Department of Architectural Construction, it is located on LEVEL A of the building. We have two large spaces with a total area of 280 m², divided into three areas where practices and research for each area of knowledge are carried out.

Resources include: testing bridge for reinforced concrete beams as well as wooden and metal structures, universal 200kN press, mixers, sulfur heater, ultrasound devices, universal electric core drill, salt chamber, icar rheometer, resistivimeter, wear track, durometer, among other smaller machines.

Model Laboratory

Attached to the Department of Graphic Expression and Architectural Projects, it is managed by a Workshop and Laboratory Technician. It has an area of 76.21m² and features various resources and machines for producing small models.

Photography and Image Processing Laboratory

Attached to the Department of Graphic Expression and Architectural Projects. It has an area of 170.34m². It includes a darkroom, various manual and digital cameras, computers, scanners, slide film maker, plotter, lighting equipment, tables for still-life photography, and documentation recording of various kinds.

Cartography and Architectural/Urban Infographics Laboratory

Attached to the Department of Art, City, and Territory. It has a cartography-dedicated area of 153.44m², including two classrooms with 22 workstations each. There is also a 40.91m² area for infographics with 12 workstations in Macintosh and PC environments.

Simulations Laboratory

Attached to the Center in collaboration with the areas of Architectural Construction and Graphic Architectural Expression. It has seventeen high-performance computers with a large shared disk for handling large files. Its mission is to experiment, in both research and teaching, with architectural simulation and virtual reality as design and study tools.

Reprography Service

It has an area of 143.80m². It is attached to the Central Services of the University.

It is equipped with a color plotter, black and white plotter, various black and white and color photocopiers, several cutters, and a color blueprint scanner.

``A modern, harmonious, and vibrant architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.``
Walter Gropius (1883-1969).
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