The territory is related to a set of social and cultural factors which, along over time build a consciousness and identity of a society, this heritage is sustained through traditions, legends and collective thought. Over time, the indigenous peoples have gone through situations that have attack on its culture and its territory, globalized modernity has come with it not only scientific development and diffusion, but also a culture of detachment and a society fascinated by the new which makes it very easy to discard and forget.
This project reveals these ethereal alignments of a community and its culture to interpret its intrinsic value as a space, understanding the architectural object as a conceptual product of its own worldview and need. As an intellectual reference, the work of Montestruque (2015) is taken, which follows a sensitive posture before the reality that the native communities go through and against the growth of urban populations and that questions whether there is a criterion preservation of the memory of the intangible from the point of view of architecture.
CONCEPT
The pilgrimage for the Andean culture is the displacement of a person, or group of people, to a sanctuary or place considered sacred, with this they intended to make a greater approach of the sacred to the people, at present, the pilgrimage implies a more complex economic, social and cultural phenomenon where the pilgrim It also seeks to travel, meet, experience, rest and interact.
In the Parroquia de Alangasí there are several starting points for pilgrimages, routes that are transited throughout the year either for reasons of mobility or reasons of worship and tradition, these axes recreate the experience of the route symbolic through the landscape, the view and the characteristic ravines of the area towards the sacred points such as volcanoes and mountains
ANDEAN PHILOSOPHY
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Cyclicity:
This principle questions the Western view of how time is conceived in a linear way, vision in which the person walks and is projected towards a future, or you can go back to see a past, two times that do not intersect they never connect; In contrast, the Andean cosmovision tells us that the space-time flows more in a spiral than in a straight line, arguing that everything in the universe goes through cycles, such as the climatic seasons, the orbits of celestial bodies, or even the birth and death; To this is added the idea that the person walks back to the future, while all you can see is the past.
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Reciprocity:
It manifests itself in the values ​​of everyday life at an ethical and community level where each act must be mutual in pursuit of the development and consolidation of the Brotherhood, this restores balance and harmony.
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Polarity:
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This is a concept that cuts across all the others, in a sense that everything has a dual logic: up-down, left-right, which unlike the Western philosophy that denotes opposition, it suggests polarity. Specifically, an important axis is that of sexual polarityfeminine-masculine, by which everything has a sex, but not as we understand grammatical gender (as in 'a' car vs. 'a' house), but that a stone can be a male stone or a female stone, and its properties are different for each case.
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Correspondence:
It is argued that each element can be understood in terms of its opposite, so that if light did not exist we could not understand the meaning of darkness.
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Complementarity:
It implies that the components coexist integrally, so that if a element is not the opposite of another, this must be its complementary partobligatorily, this principle entails that the parts can combine their attributes to get more complete results than each part would get separately,
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SPACE AND COLLECTIVITY
The Andean worldview is a way of interpreting or perceiving the world around us. Surrounds, life and the universe in general, within the Andean ideology both beings humans as well as the animal and plant kingdoms have the same importance, this is expressed through values, the way particular of living, thinking and ancestral rites.One of the essential and characteristic logics in the Andean cosmovision is that the Society is not made up exclusively of human beings, but also of the rest of the animals, for the vegetation, for the rocks, and above all for the constellations. space is a consequence of this intrinsic relationship with nature. Relationality is the primordial principle in the Andean culture, it shows that everything is related or connected in some way, nothing exists individually or isolated, when an element is separated its essence is destroyed; the universe is a system of cause, effect and transformation links. The laws of relationship are:
ARCHITECTONIC PROGRAM
