La Galería

Abstract

Architecture comes alive in art. We adopt these concepts as witnesses of the passage of time, of thought and of feeling, a task that ancient art extended to our days as a superfluous means of transporting culture and knowledge epoch after epoch, being individually or together, means of indivisible link. Since architecture is the center of investigative development, it is possible to link it to contemporaneity from its physical and intangible pluralism, becoming, in turn, a competition in which architectural sensitivity is directly destroyed, with ever firmer obstinacy. Such sensitivity has been attained throughout history unconsciously through the senses; however, as Pallasmaa says, (2014) "buildings have become products-images separate from depth and existential sincerity"; under this concept, the present degree project, is approached from a critical posture, The Gallery is conceived as an urban-architectural complex promoting the cultural and heritage appropriation of the city through art. This seeks to be a space with national scope, empowering the concept of Tunja as a cultural city. The main project focuses on recovering a decaying architectural space under the concepts of performance and architectural nostalgia, transforming a place into ruins in an artistic environment that promotes culture and art through direct interaction with the community and transforming the environment into a pedestrian oasis that is constituted as an artistic and cultural threshold within the city; additionally, it aims to reinterpret the architectural heritage to transgress it and transform the space, framing the non-architecture as focus of performance linking in turn urban, historical and symbolic elements in the plastic construction of the project, obtained obtaining as synthesis, the physical expression of architectural design as creative interpretation of art from a sensitive posture.