Centro de promoción y desarrollo artesanal para el antiguo pabellón de carnes de la Plaza de Mercado San Mateo

Abstract

The San Mateo market square, located at 34th Street with number 16, in the center of the city of Bucaramanga, is a fundamental part of the history of the city, for being one of the first covered marketplaces in the country and also for having given the opportunity to the peasants of the town to be able to trade their products in a place specifically created for this purpose. It is currently in a state of abandonment, generating a large number of negative aspects for the sector, proliferating factors of insecurity, unhealthiness and a deplorable image for the city. The objective of the exercise is based on the change of use of the original building to propose the design of a center of promotion and artisan development that tends to the exaltation of the most representative arts and crafts of the department of Santander. The exercise consists of the rehabilitation of the building by means of a systemic work that includes several stages; the international theoretical references for the intervention of heritage buildings were analyzed as well as the analysis of the cultural norms of the ministry of the nation with the purpose of confronting them to arrive at a pertinent conclusion with which to intervene the building in an ideal way, this to know what has been said in the matter of intervention and heritage conservation; An analysis was made of the historical framework of the building to know the processes by which it crossed the Plaza San Mateo to finally be constituted as a suitable space for the sale and marketing of products of the basic basket, in addition to knowing the urban context of the Bucaramanga of the time, this in order to understand what were the causes of the detriment of the building over time and be able to generate a criterion appropriate to the valuation of the building from an architectural and cultural point of view. An inventory of cultural spaces was generated in order to know the current reality of culture in Bucaramanga and how the square can become a complementary space to them; In turn, it is necessary to know and interpret the local regulations of the POT facing them with the legal framework corresponding to the management of heritage buildings according to what was declared by the Mayor of Bucaramanga with respect to the building itself, in addition to analyzing the national and international heritage references that in turn, underwent a process of restoration and finally fieldwork was carried out on the building to analyze various heritage aspects such as the style of the building, the pathological affects suffered by the building over the years from its interior to its exterior (involution and evolution) and its structural detriment by adopting a study of seismic vulnerability of the Mayor's Office of Bucaramanga.