Abstract
Abstract. Vernacular architecture contains essential features of identity and customs of a town. Talking about housing, referred as the intimate space of development of a human group, it is understood its cultural significance. Architectural globalization, with features extracted from the outside, adapted without studies in any kind of territory, threatens to absorb those essential qualities of the various villages. Ecuador, as a multicultural country, conceive in the law the conservation of cultural heritage as primordial, however, there are few solutions to the problem of the heritage destruction. Lack of studies avoids the recovery of the built heritage, ignorance of the people downplays the vernacular, where forms and spaces of this architecture have been relegated, despite being the perfect and unique solution for each site. This article expresses the importance of vernacular architecture, its value in memory, and the fight against oblivion. It proposes a solution to curb its disappearance, trying to establish a model for architectural design that revalue the vernacular through an analysis of forms and spaces to suit contemporary contexts. A vision of the present influenced by the past, properly integrated.
Highlights
There is a way to build that is born when man has the obligation to settle his habitat, “arises from the need to build a shelter against the adversities of the environment, from the sedentary nature of man” (Andrés Peñaherrera, 2012)
How do you keep identifying features, boosting the rescue of the culture of the town by the new architectural offer? This study presents an answer that allows match the traditional architecture with the contemporary context, effectively solving the demands of new ways of living
The methodology is divided into five stages, the first being the selection of a sample of households, to continue the development of the inventory form, working with the model of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, but adding data such as elevations and floor plans, stylistic characterization, visual aspects of the facades, and condition of the elements
Summary
There is a way to build that is born when man has the obligation to settle his habitat, “arises from the need to build a shelter against the adversities of the environment, from the sedentary nature of man” (Andrés Peñaherrera, 2012) It is called vernacular or popular architecture that does not respond to styles and hardly represents times, but, it is the one that “responds to the needs of its particular user emphasizing its customs, its culture and its essence” (Garabieta, 2010). On 25 July 2018, in Palembang (Indonesia), “Chocó Andino” territory, located in Ecuador, in the northwest of Pichinchas province, was declared a Biosphere Reserve to join the world wide web in the program Man and the Biosphere (MAB) of UNESCO After this statement there begins a process in the Ecuadorian legal framework where ordinances as 137 "(...) established “Chocó Andino” as an area of ecological, cultural and. This study takes place in Nono parish, a populated area that, at present, has been threatened their features of identity through globalizing processes in that place
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