Town halls in Cundinamarca. Case Study of the town hall in the municipality of Cogua Casas consistoriais em Cundinamarca. Estudo de caso da casa do município de Cogua

With the creation of the first American settlements, the institutions responsible for managing cities and ensuring the proper settlement of the legal, administrative and economic problems of its inhabitants are born. These institutions, which were created by the Spanish, were called councils. The pl...

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Autor Principal: Uribe Kaffure, Claudia; Universidad del Tolima
Otros Autores: López Pérez, Cecilia Teresa; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Ruiz Valencia, Daniel Mauricio; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Instituto Carlos Arbeláez Camacho para el patrimonio arquitectónico y urbano 2014
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revApuntesArq/article/view/13192
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Sumario: With the creation of the first American settlements, the institutions responsible for managing cities and ensuring the proper settlement of the legal, administrative and economic problems of its inhabitants are born. These institutions, which were created by the Spanish, were called councils. The place where they met regularly to session the councilwas called the Town Hall, Municipal house, government house or guildhall. This article provides a brief overview of the town halls of the colonial era that are still standing in the department of Cundinamarca. Its typology is described in terms of architectural and structural terms, by studying the specific case of the town hall of Cogua. Likewise it isstudied the response of the building to service loads and potential seismic events and it is proposed a reinforcement to improve its structural performance.