Resumen de Las Casas de Carabineros en la Costa Oriental Gaditana
Juan Carlos Pérez Pedraza, Alexis Pérez Fargallo, José Antonio Barrera Vera
The old Carabineros Houses of the Cadiz Coast constitute a humble architectural typology that left a trail of small, very characteristic buildings. They served as defence and surveillance against smuggling and nowadays they are in a fragile situation, close to disappearing, under the threat of real estate speculation attracted by their strategic and peerless locations in front of the Strait of Gibraltar and the abandonment and plundering made official by certain administrations, with the excuse of the renaturation of natural spaces they occupy on the coast. The objective of the communication is to provide a reflection oriented towards the diagnosis of Protection and Conservation for the necessary enhancement of the Architectural Heritage that makes up the Casas de Carabineros. For this, the interventions carried out, the current state, the evolution, the management of these heritage groups, have been analysed to structure their study and propose measures for their correct protection. The approach of general guidelines that can later be applied to different geographical areas marked by the same characteristics is one of the assets of the research. Thus, documentary research has been fulfilled, followed by a surveying case of study where the graphic documentation has been carried out as a first step for the enhancement of this architectural heritage.
