Plan de acción y lineamientos de gestión para la conservación de la calle Simón Bolívar de la ciudad de Cuenca, bajo la mirada del paisaje histórico urbano

Abstract

The objective of this study is to propose guidelines for the management and conservation of Bolivar Street and Baltazara de Calderón with a focus on the Urban Historic Landscape, in considerations made by UNESCO. For this purpose were used constitutive elements, highlighting architectural, historical and cultural aspects, identifying the typologies and characteristics of the built complex, detailing the historicity and significance of the study area. Emphasis has been placed on the identification of important architectural typologies, as well as with negative impact buildings and their impact on heritage. We also analyzed the area of influence, the population of the study area and the subjective component. The diagnosis was made through the analysis of the state of conservation of the whole building set, risks and threats applying the FODA matrix. At the propositional level, the political management are presented with their respective strategies and models; programs, projects for the preventive conservation, maintenance and monitoring of four houses, of the parks Calderón and San Blas, of the lateral facade of the church of San Blas are proposed; to organize citizen committees, workshops on education, training and dissemination of cultural heritage. The projects at the profile or idea level were developed in detail, as for the deteriorated houses selected, the Calderón and San Blas squares and the lateral facade of the church of San Blas, it was also convenient to carry out a project on the compilation of oral memory to evidence historical data