Propuesta de diseño de un Centro Cultural para exposiciones y eventos en el municipio de Barichara, por medio de la rehabilitación del antiguo centro de acopio de tabaco

Abstract

The purpose of the following project is to develop and design a cultural center within the urban area of Barichara, Santander, through the Rehabilitation of the former Tobacco Collection Center (COLTABACO) in order to provide a new area for civic and cultural activities, As well as establish a place that supplies a meeting point for the community and allows the consolidation of social events since the municipality lacks permanent proper infrastructure for these activities to be carried, therefor it has been determined as the pertinent area the full extent of the six warehouses complex to be reformed as the container volume for the proposed use, which fulfills the spatial adequate criteria as it has been already used by the local population and the town’s administration to hold social gatherings. The development will be executed through the reinterpretation of the architectural surveys seen on “Inventario de Bien Inmueble Patrimonial del Antiguo Centro de Acopio de Tabaco de Barichara”, as well as from the Analysis carried on its spatial and physical features, it’s cultural heritage, and the parameters focused on the rehabilitation of the building’s cultural value, which allow to propose the design of spaces that work as a juncture in between the original aesthetic values and the contemporary proposal, being based on the volumetric features of the building, the policies, the restoration theories, the land orientation, and the sociocultural elements.