The Railway System in the Northwest Argentina. Architecture and its Addicional Facilities

As in many countries of the world the railway was in Argentina, in the late nineteenth century, the main agent of change in theterritory. Especially in northwest Argentina, it was installed a system of settlements that produced an important impact at thegeographic, urban - territorial, political, ec...

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Autor Principal: Ferrari, Mónica; Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Instituto Carlos Arbeláez Camacho para el patrimonio arquitectónico y urbano 2014
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Sumario: As in many countries of the world the railway was in Argentina, in the late nineteenth century, the main agent of change in theterritory. Especially in northwest Argentina, it was installed a system of settlements that produced an important impact at thegeographic, urban - territorial, political, economic and social level. The last link in this system was the architecture and complementarybuildings that allowed the development of new spaces to perform the functions of loading and unloading of rawmaterials and the rise and drop off passengers. It was one of the new nineteenth-century architectural programs, and perhapsthe most variety of scales and types reached.This study identifies the types of architecture, functional elements and componentsof the railway system in the different seasons of the provinces. As a result we give the architectural features of the system asa model employed, who was part of a functional interconnection. The research was based on a fieldwork and consultation ofdisjointed railway files, interviews with key informants and the preparation of an inventory of railway architecture in which wehas been detected 208 stations in the region.