Relación entre tradición y contemporaneidad. Tres casos de intervención en la arquitectura doméstica con valor patrimonial de la ciudad de Quito

Abstract

This research focuses on the study of three cases of intervention in civil domestic architecture with patrimonial value in the city of Quito of three important histo-rical moments: Colonial era with The house of Alabado, Republican period with The house of the TresManuelas and Modern period with The Muller House.

The document starts with a theoretical approach on the conservation of the builted heritage in a context of relationship between tradition and contempora-neity. Additionally, the part of the interventions on buildings with heritage value and it concludes with the collection of representative contemporary solutions.

Subsequently, a brief approach of Quito with several important historical stages raised in the city, its features and especially the analysis of domestic architec-ture, this in order to identify the values and attributes that define themthereby to obtain a real and objective view of the significance and original situation of each property studied .

It continues with the analysis of interventions in the cases studied. This review fo-cuses on the most recent intervention. In first instance, identified type, level and degree of intervention of the entire project, then the study deepens with the analysis of the proposals (solutions) and the aspects that influenced the decisions. It concludes with the effects of interventions on important attributes or elements of the building.

Finally, conclusions and recommendations that highlight the important elements in terms of architectural interventions in the present context of contemporaneity are exposed.