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Earth, Tradition and Territory. Complex Agricultural Tourist "El Vínculo" Toca-Boyacá

Part 1 Project 2005
Jenny Astrid Vargas Sánchez
Ricardo Martínez Méndez
 National University of Colombia - Bogotá campus | Colombia
The recognition of a territory and their geographical and cultural conditions are the base of this tourist project, associated with the economy and the local knowledge, manifesto architecturally in the intervention of a rural house. We study the municipality of Toca, identifying natural and built elements with tourist potential, finding a group of seven rural houses. We work one, " El Vínculo ", studying his architecture and condition of conservation.. The intervention allows lending of services to the tourism maintaining their productive agricultural work. We conserve to the maximum their originality. The added volumes use a new language worked with traditional materials.
Jenny Astrid Vargas Sánchez
Ricardo Martínez Méndez

The project was developed in the deepening Conservation of patrimony, and it is part of the investigation physical Characteristics and of habitabilidad of the adobe constructions in the highland cundiboyacense". It stands out the process carried out in the levels macro and micro, by means of which the proposed objectives were completed. The environment was studied, identifying the areas for the intervention and the architectural proposal. It was developed low clear approaches of valuation of the construction and their lands, as well as the knowledge of their constructive systems framed by the traditional use of the raw earth.
2005
Location and image of the municipality of Toca. This is the site of development of the project
In the place we found seven important houses for the patrimony of the municipality
We select the house " El Vinculo " for his architectural qualities and the agricultural work of his lands.
Planes of the current condition of the house, realized from the field work.
There are realized the analyses of uses and current condition of conservation.
The building and his environment is studied determining the elements to value for the intervention.
The intervention preserves the architectural original elements adapting them for social areas, rooms, areas of services and areas of work.
Planes of analysis of the preserved elements and of the proposed uses.
Digital images of the project. Exterior views of the set.
The project develops with a traditional material as the adobe, preserving the technologies of construction of the original house.
We propose two blocks to continue the productive labor of the house and his lands.
The interior court is one of the principal elements preserved and adapted in the project.
Process models that show the strategic location of the country property in the municipality.
Models of development of the architectural project.
Posters realized for the sustentation it publishes of the project.
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