El Cementerio Renacer de Suba y Su Eje Fundamental.

Abstract

Cemeteries are specific places that are part of the human environment, both because of the spiritual approach that a loved one encounters, and because of the artistic and monumental testimonies that they leave throughout history, as the architect Laura de Carlí says in the first International meeting of contemporary cemeteries: Space for the deceased, gallery where the memory of its great men is preserved, area where it takes place (1991)

From the birth of the human being, the inert and lifeless body will be located in a place where it can be rediscovered, venerated, visited and not left in oblivion. Once the different cultural appropriations arise over time, the cemeteries have a meaning in accordance with the way of thinking as they advance. The idea of monumentalizing death arises from ancient civilizations, thus leaving their earthly and heavenly glory. (From Carli, 1991, p. 58)

In fact, that history that is being forged in the place, makes it a heritage architectural fact; The most intense connection of the cemetery will be the product of an interrelation with the church, which in many cases will be located in the foundational square, if it is a bit far away, another element will intervene that will be considered immaterial because it is a framed experience in that element that is precisely, the corridor that moves the coffin from the church to the cemetery through a funeral procession, full of ancestral traditions; In Suba, that journey, being common in a historical moment, becomes the patrimonial symbol that unites, the foundational square where the church is located with the oldest cemetery, located approximately one kilometer away. As indicated by the Spanish crown through Law I, title Cedula Real de Carlos III of the ninth compilation of the laws of the Indians in 1787, where it orders the location of cemeteries outside the towns as close as possible to the parishes, but distant of neighboring houses, (Barrio Loza, 1991)

The research raises from the line of sociocultural habitat, in the History, Theory and Criticism modality, Articulate said cemetery with the founding square of Suba to recover the sense of belonging as a historical and cultural symbol in favor of memory for the new generations.