TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES

This research thesis starts with the expositions of the problems caused by the disorderly growth of the city at the beginning of the 20th century and the attempts of counteracting them through the Bogotá Futuro plan, promoted by Ricardo Olano, the forerunner of City Planning in the country. In parallel to this, the process of dismantling the estates located mainly in the north of the city was carried out, allowing the Santa Teresita neighborhood to be projected on the grounds of the farm in 1927. This was one of the first neighborhoods planned under hygienist guidelines, in addition to being a pioneer in the adoption of innovative urban elements.

Because it has architectural, urban and environmental values, today Santa Teresita is part of the Sector of Cultural Interest of Teusaquillo, declared as a Sector with Individual Development, making part of the urban heritage of the Capital District. With the analysis made, it was possible to show that there is currently a fragmentation of the neighborhood network, especially due to the validity of two contrary urban treatments such as Urban Renewal and Conservation.

As a result, urban conservation strategies are proposed that seek the reintegration of the neighborhood as a unit and set that it was in its origin, helping to counteract the various factors that threaten its conservation as part of the cultural heritage of the city of Bogotá.

Name: Paradigm of modernization in the urban planning of Bogota during the first half of the 20th century. Urban conservation strategies. Case study: Santa Teresita neighborhood.

Subject: Master's final thesis.

Location: Teusaquillo, Bogotá - Colombia.

Members: Maria Alejandra Agudelo Briceño.

Project Director: Luis Carlos Colón Llamas.

Project Level: Academic research thesis.

Date: 2021.

Conceptual Development And Research Approach

Venice “testimony of a particular civilization”

Research question

Bogotá Futuro plan

Karl Brünner charters Legal regulations Colombian laws Law 163 of 1959

Old sectors, urban characterized fragments

Washington “urban core values” Veracruz “criteria for protection and memory of social identity”

Urban planning guidelines, as the origin of the monument

From La Merced Farmstead To Santa Teresita Neighborhood

What urban conservation strategies should be established in Santa Teresita neighborhood for it to be preserved as a whole ?

General objective

To propose urban conservation strategies for the Santa Teresita neighborhood.

Specific objectives

To make a historical research through the study of the social, political and economic context and the planning process of the " modern city " in Bogotá.

To establish a comprehensive diagnosis of Santa Teresita neighborhood to understand the current dynamics

”La

1990 Agreement 6 Historical, urban and architectural conservation - Urban conservationTransition conservation

1976 Santa Teresita neighborhood

Holguín & Liévano society

To identify which urban conservation strategies in the Santa Teresita neighborhood avoid the fragmentation of the neighborhood network the religious order for the church’s construction 1927

1923 Bogotá Futuro construction Neighborhood’s projection according to Bogotá futuro Church’s construction 1928

1948

April 9th

Death of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

Casa after Jorge

1941 Santa Teresita Church

Canalization Arzobispo River 1943

1936 Santa Teresita neighborhood

Casa Gaitán’s construction

1933

Karl Brünner urban planning director

1932 Santa Teresita neighborhood

1930 Santa Teresita neighborhood Avenida Caracas design 1934 site analysis (based on the district decree 190 of 2004)

Transportation and Accessibility

Conservation Status

Preserved elements: This analysis was made in order to identify which Santa Teresita’s elements are preserved, since either the origin of the neighborhood or its consolidation until nowadays.