Catalogación y acciones de conservación de las casas de estancia de la Hoya de Loja. Caso de estudio Masaca

Abstract

Considering the main objective of the present work, the cataloging and conservation actions for the shelter houses of the Loja basin; Case of study of Masaca, process that determines to identify all the development and evolution of the stay as it is the architectural vestige and the house of stay, interlacing all these components that make up the life and identity of the settlement of a community in the Masaca sector. Study that motivated to propose an architectural proposal of conservation, given the existence and decay of the patrimonial asset existing as a rural entity, inferring various factors in the cause as ignorance of its existence, rural position, expansion of buildings, lack of knowledge regarding maintenance of buildings With vernacular materials among others. Under these precepts and for continuing its existence through the proposed tools and technical specifications of the INPC and the VLIR Project in terms of cataloging; It leaves a historical, social and architectural precedent of the house of stay Masaca; For its dissemination, knowledge and consideration as a modest contribution to the history of Loja.