The study has developed an online geospatial database for assessing the complexity of roadway heritage, overcoming the limitations of traditional heritage catalogues and databases: the itemization of heritage assets and the rigidity of the database structure. Reflecting the current openness in the field of heritage studies, the research proposes an interdisciplinary approach that reframes heritage databases, both conceptually and technologically. Territorial scale is key for heritage interpretation, the complex characteristics of each type of heritage, and social appropriation. The system is based on an open-source content-management system and framework called ProcessWire, allowing flexibility in the definition of data fields and serving as an internal working tool for research collaboration. Accessibility, flexibility, and ease of use do not preclude rigor: the database works in conjunction with a GIS (Geographic Information System) support system and is complemented by a bibliographical archive. A hierarchical multiscalar heritage characterization has been implemented in order to include the different territorial scales and to facilitate the creation of itineraries. Having attained the main goals of conceptual heritage coherence, accessibility, and rigor, the database should strive for broader capacity to integrate GIS information and stimulate public participation, a step toward controlled crowdsourcing and collaborative heritage characterization.
Roads and particularly those adapted to the automobile, constitute an essential element in the shaping of landscapes. In Europe they were built within historic
The Civil Guard barracks, promoted by the Directorate-General of Devastated Regions [Dirección General de Regiones Devastadas, DGRD] (1939-1957), are an exception within the general marginality of this hybrid architecture in architectural historiography. However, such a prominence has led to a distorted and partial approach to the architecture of these barracks, ignoring the contemporary production of the Civil Guard’s technical services. This is the first study that deals with the post-war promotion of barracks, offering an analysis that sheds light on the interdependencies and contributions made by each organisation. The methodology is based on a bibliographical review, which includes the Reconstrucción journal, the consultation of the projects in the archives that hold the documentation of both organisations and the comparative analysis of their productions. This paper aims to show how the DGRD based the promotion of its barracks on the models created by the architects attached to the Civil Guard, taking them directly and adapting them to its propagandistic interests according to Franco’s ideology using strategic implantation, a commitment to specific typologies, excessive ornamentation and the emphasis on a collective way of life.
Las casas cuartel de la Guardia Civil y de Carabineros se encontraban, durante el primer tercio del siglo XX, sin una definida formalización tipológica. Esto permitía una gran variedad de soluciones a ingenieros y arquitectos, aunque preponderando su carácter militar o recurriendo a un lenguaje de corte historicista. En este periodo, José Joaquín González Edo tuvo la oportunidad de enfrentarse a este tipo de proyectos en la costa malagueña. Esto se traducirá en toda una serie de estudios y propuestas, inéditos en gran medida, en los que reflejará su visión arquitectónica contemporánea, junto con la búsqueda de una solución óptima al programa laboral-residencial de estos acuartelamientos. Se aporta así un análisis histórico y comparativo de uno de sus periodos productivos más interesantes y desconocidos, culminando en la antigua casa cuartel de la Guardia Civil en Mijas, único proyecto de nueva planta que llevó a cabo.
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