Huella de un lugar. Galería patrimonial para la recuperación y adecuación del edificio Hospital San Lorenzo en Armero Colombia

Abstract

The role of architecture in the recovery of a place that has lost its historical identity, makes it possible to identify the importance of the ruin as part of the architectural heritage in the case of the municipality of Armero, Colombia, which after the avalanche of November 13, 1985, produced the fragmentation of the sector’s social and economic structure so the data suggest the relevance of an architectural intervention for the recovery of the Hospital San Lorenzo building as a heritage gallery highlighting its physical characteristics. Due to the tourist potential that awakens the historical memory and the physical qualities that the department of Tolima has, it is evident that strategies can be implemented that have been applied in different parts of the world. Landmarks such as the Auschwitz case, the twin towers that have suffered similar situations as a result of this, achieve a commemoration of the victims. It is necessary to propose intervention alternatives that integrate the historical memory and the tourist potential in order to rescue and strengthen the dignity of the city, through the application of concepts such as the poetics of architecture, temporality, topogenesis and stereotomic viewed from the user’s perspective.