Propuesta para la preservación de la casa Simón Bolívar en Bucaramanga, Santander

Abstract

The house where the Liberator dwelt in 1828, for a period of 70 days, it was used as a headquarters, school, family residence, hotel and cigar factory, it has been one of the buildings in the historic sector of Bucaramanga with more changes of uses, until becoming headquarters of the Academy of History of Santander in 1946, use that still conserves; it denotes the relevance and presence that it has maintained over the course of time, becoming an icon of the Bumanguesa population. This report is made with the purpose of generating a diagnosis and investigating the necessary means for the conservation of the property declared Good of Cultural Interest of National level (BIC-N). It should be noted the poor state in which it is currently, both architecturally and functionally, for this purpose is used as a methodological basis, the PEMP instrument for the execution of such research in order to safeguard its values and unique characteristics within the Colombian colonial heritage and architecture, evaluating the problems that affect it in its entirety. For the development of this report, 3 phases are established, ranging from a historical study, which analyzes all the transformations of the building, a physical-spatial survey together with a diagnosis of the current state of the building and finally, the development of the strategic guidelines (physical and technical aspects of the PEMP) established in Decree 763 of 2009.