Constructive (Dis)continuities in earthen heritage restoration in northwestern argentina

Abstract

Successive interventions that certain heritage architectures have had over time imply, in many cases, the interaction between construction techniques and materials that not always are compatible with each other. This interaction relates to communities’ conceptions about architectural heritage and its techniques, leading to constructive continuities and discontinuities that influence heritage assets and their trajectories. In this paper, these issues will be analized from the “Casa del Marqués”, located in the province of Jujuy, in northwestern Argentina, a restoration work in progress with a participative approach strategy as a review instance of our own representations and articulation with those that come from local populations.