El Solar Decathlon América Latina y el Caribe 2019: una oportunidad para el desarrollo de actividades innovadoras de capacitación y aprendizaje

The Solar Decathlon Latin America and Carribean 2019 held in Cali (Colombia), was an international competition between universities that aims to propose accessible "social housing". The participation in this edition, allowed the construction of housing prototypes interpreting the needs of the most "vulnerable" users, trying to overcome the criticality of the current Latin American scenario in which the supply of social housing does not meet the real needs of the population. The innovative teaching activity proposed by the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotà and the Politecnico di Torino through the Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology, played a fundamental role in this experience. The ocument presents the development of the project for this competition, from the point of view of training and education opportunities for the students and makes a proposal to improve the PBL experiences in relation to the construction of 1:1 prototypes in the architecture and engineering classes.