Abstract
Abstract. Climate, topography, hydrology, and all the factors of the natural environment affecting a population, as well as accessibility to materials and its ease of transport have constituted the variables determining the vernacular housing characteristics. In the territory which now covers Calimaya various cultural groups settled, making evident the syncretism of various building traditions. Since its formation the place was a site of passage, which communicated various goods transport, generating a peculiar urban physiognomy and cultural exchange, leading to the introduction of buildings, typical of this place. The town’s current situation is characterized by a rapid process of urbanization and social transformation, generating new needs of usage and habitability. This growth transforms the architecture of the place, replacing it with buildings with physiognomic features that do not correspond to the original context, causing loss of local construction techniques. Assuming that typology is a theoretical and creative activity allowing the definition and structuring of a system of conceptual relations, within certain limits, in order to determine the representative elements of vernacular architecture of the site, a typological analysis is being carried out to identify local materials and buildings systems, its characteristics, and spatial shape. Likewise, a constructive and architectural analysis, identifying traditional building techniques, which will favour the development of solutions facing the problem of conservation, maintenance and sustainability in the locality, is being carried out.
Highlights
This paper presents the methodology used for the creation of a typological framework representing the traditional architecture in the town of Calimaya de Diaz Gonzalez, State of Mexico, in order to generate working tools for maintaining and preserving the architectural heritage focusing on the traditional housing
Nowadays the development of cities has modified the original traces, and regarding Calimaya, cropping areas have been transformed into paths for the removal of construction materials; the original job of constructions has been modified, leading to residential use reduction
These new needs for housing, infrastructure, services and transport, have led to a conflict between urban development and the defense of heritage for it has generated an evident alteration to the local architectural heritage
Summary
Nowadays the development of cities has modified the original traces, and regarding Calimaya, cropping areas have been transformed into paths for the removal of construction materials; the original job of constructions has been modified, leading to residential use reduction. These new needs for housing, infrastructure, services and transport, have led to a conflict between urban development and the defense of heritage for it has generated an evident alteration to the local architectural heritage. These qualities are those giving character and personality to the community, committed to the idea that the conservation makes sense only as an upgrade of the historical process (Guerrero, 1998)
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