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“God Miracle in the Abyss”: Minor Basilica of Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Las Lajas (Ipiales, Colombia), Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Part 1 Dissertation 2022
Valentina Sarmiento Muñoz
Matthew Stevie Duarte Díaz
Diego Alejandro Hernández Hernández
Karen Valentina López Vanegas
Ana Sofia Jiménez Botero
Natalia Bernal Montoya
Sharom Nickolle Forero Abaunza
University of La Salle Bogotá | Colombia
The dissertation about the Minor Basilica of Nuestra Señora del Rosario of Las Lajas (Ipiales, Colombia) broach the original analysis of the building known as “Miracle of God in the Abyss”, recognize by their neo-romanesque and neogothic architecture in the middle of the canyon Guáitara river, interaction between the natural and cultural, a project destined to catholic parishioners and general public, as a sociocultural and physique spatial contribution, integrates sustainable development of its context by decades.

At the beginning, it consolidated from a strict investigative process, the historic origin of the Minor Basilica since the year 1754 until now, evincing the construction of four sequential temples concluded at an architecture religious equipment creation from qualitative, historiographical and ethnographic methods.

Subsequently, it was insight a spacial register and architectural characterization In Situ making architecture planimetry of the whole building, allowing to understand the different styles through shape components (Venustas), function (Utilitas) and stability (Firmitas), to reveal an interaction between architecture with their natural context, sculptural and artistic own works from their religious heritage, finishing the intellectual production with the patrimonial valuation based on UNESCO criteria.


Tutor(s)
William Pasuy Arciniegas
2022
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