Museo Alfarero de Arte y Memoria Raquira

Abstract

Ráquira is known as one of the most beautiful municipalities in Boyacá, it highlights its pottery industry and its culture transmitted for generations, being this a potting town that has a population of 14,234 inhabitants; Most of the sector lives off the pottery trade and its tourism due to the colonial architecture. For this case, the problem of environmental pollution due to furnace emissions will be addressed, taking into account the loss of identity of the municipality, these aspects being a detrimental issue for the department, negatively affecting the ecosystems around it by practice of coal-burning pottery techniques that have been monopolized without control in large industries, leaving aside their ancestral artisanal techniques. For this, a project is developed that integrates the characteristics that currently directly affect the municipality, giving way to the progress and organization of different pottery activities that are not being properly managed due to the lack of resources at a spatial and technological level; The Architectural project seeks, through an analysis carried out during the semester, to provide a space that is allusive to identity and meets all needs in such a way that it integrates different activities and organizes tourism, local commerce, pottery training and pollution mitigation.