El arte de renacer conservación integral del teatro San Jorge de la Ciudad de Bogotá

Abstract

The town of Los Mártires, which is located in the center-west of Bogota, has been affected by different historical processes involved in shaping the urban space. Particularly during the first decades of the twentieth century, with the arrival of the railroad and the development processes associated to modern though and industrialization, where the transformation of the town was promoted with increasing primary industrial activities and the emergence of working-class neighborhoods. As a result, the displacement of resident communities in the sector became imminent, leaving behind homes and facilities of social, historical and architectural significance into disuse. This is the case of the San Jorge Theater, opened in 1938 as one of the great works of Art Deco of Bogotá city. It is located in this town and was affected by this phenomenon of resignification, which it has led to a progressive deterioration and his total abandonment today. However, the San Jorge Theater is declared a Good of Cultural Interest, and thus allows us to formulate a proposal for an integral conservation, whose purpose to restore its use, keep their stylistic values and adapt its architectural elements, in order to be a complementary equipment of development projects in the sector.