Methodology for the assessment of the architectural heritage impact in urban space: Family Medical Unit Number 40

Abstract

This research aims to understand the nature of heritage, using a methodology in healthcare unit. Exchange values ​​generally prevail over use values, favoring the assessment of properties from investment and financial perspectives, or, in any case, the consideration of the property itself, separate from the social relations that constitute it. Therefore, this research contributes to an: ontological, vital, ethical, social, cultural, historical, logical, formal, aesthetic, and emblematic assessment that integrates architecture into its context, based on its spatial condition in everyday life. The methodology consist in determine values. Based on these values, a survey was conducted to users, with the aim of obtain a collective interpretation that contributes to understand how a healthcare unit survived after institutional dismantling. The findings link values ​​with socio-spatial relations, consistent with a given context. Therefore, this research can be replicated in relation to other healthcare units and even in other institutions. Likewise, this analysis contributes to the design processes, promoting the integration of facilities into the urban environment.