El desafío y fracaso en la preservación del patrimonio cultural tangible: casa Eduardo Santos

Abstract

Cultural heritage is a historical legacy that belongs to a community and is transmitted from generation to generation. It is for this reason that we decided to make a personal compilation and analysis of the historical, structural, and architectural information of the house. Eduardo Santos with the use of studies and literary information on the same for compliance with the historical resolution of the house and the reasons. They led to its transformation to its current state. Throughout this article we will analyze and know the four questions about the historical transformation of the house, starting with the size of the property that is in the beginning that is due to the absence of its owner and that during the change of owners the house was adapted to the size of its members and their needs, through the historical sequence of the house, it is evident the growth of the same with the addition of the north, south and east body, in addition to the second floor. As its uses also generated its expansion they also entailed a deterioration, that during the time in which it functioned as the school that made several reforms that damaged its structure and its original architectural conception, then it becomes part of the inventory of the state and goes into neglect to take it to the ruin where it is today.