ABSTRACT:The rehabilitation of heritage sites, as well as the implementation of monitoring and control strategies is fundamental for its conservation. In the case of Cuenca, a World Heritage City, a maintenance campaign in the traditional neighborhood of San Roque was carried out in 2014. The objective was to undertake maintenance actions on roofs and façades as well as on elements at risk. The campaign process was developed keeping in mind the cycle or phases of preventive conservation: anamnesis, diagnosis, therapy and control (ICOMOS, 2003). At the end of the maintenance campaign an impact assessment was undertaken and monitoring tools were handed out to the community in order to strengthen the citizen participation in the preservation of built heritage. The experience of the maintenance campaign unveiled a series of lessons that have been evaluated in the present investigation, being the main objective the strengthening of the processes of governance and documentation through the formulation of strategies inherent to the maintenance of heritage buildings. In this process it is shown that the participation of citizens is a strategic factor for the sustainable development of maintenance campaigns, which allow for the preservation of historical sites for future generations.
La presente investigación tiene como objetivo principal identificar los colores que históricamente han estado presentes en las fachadas de la arquitectura civil del Centro Histórico de Cuenca. Para alcanzar este objetivo se ha desarrollado una metodología que parte del estudio de la historia, relatos y testimonios de quienes han guardado en la memoria los colores que han formado parte de la imagen histórica de la ciudad. Complementariamente las calas de prospección realizadas en algunas edificaciones patrimoniales para descubrir in situ, los colores que guardaban los muros y otros elementos de fachada permitieron elaborar una paleta de colores históricos de Cuenca, que ha servido de base para la aplicación de varias propuestas cromáticas en diferentes edificaciones y tramos dentro del Centro Histórico de la ciudad.
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