Resumen de El mercado de querétaro. Una visión alternativa cronotópica desde el hoy y desde el lugar
In Mexico, in the city of Santiago de Querétaro, inside the so-called Barrios de la Otra Banda, El Tepetate market is located, which background dates since pre-Hispanic times. The environment of the area denotes a low urban and architectural quality, a deficiency in its accessibility and social problems; besides being neglected for decades. The market is the engine of the boroughs and, despite being known across the city, its geographical location manifests territorial segregation from the UNESCO heritage area by a river and a railway track.
In hybrid cultures such as latin american, the anthropological, social, political, urban and architectonic aspects are hardly reconcilable when it comes to common good. The social reality concurs with the history of the place, it has and makes memory. It is necessary to safeguard the cultural continuity to guarantee past experiences: knowing where one comes from so one knows where to go. Studying how the entities relate with one another through space and time, acknowledging an entity cannot be understood without the other, leads to understanding that the diverse results are not an ending or a beginning, but an inclusion.
With historical, urban and ethnographic studies it is proposed to approach in present day to the culture of the place and it is reflected upon the links between the results. A configuration which associates historical changes in the urban layout that have contributed to the relocation of the market, which memory is almost forgotten is presented; as well as an exercise of micro-urban enhancement that would intend to promote physical and social inclusion. Endowing the architecture with instruments that make its temporal and spatial adequation to the urban process possible, will contribute to a system which conducts towards the improvement of the livability conditions for the users of such architecture. An alternate vision which links time with space and times between themselves, will guide towards the proposal of a new market or its rehabilitation along with its urban environment.
It is about recognizing that building does not mean occupying space annihilating the alterity, that is to say the condition of being other or others, but about heading to a change in a careful and proportionate manner. Although this being a hard labor, it is not to be thought as an impossible one, and even if it limits in utopia, “the worst utopia there exist is that of thinking everything will go well if continued as until now”.
The distinct spatial, temporal, physic and social characteristics of the place should conduct to architectonic and urban projects or interventions of recognized quality reflecting its specific modernity.
