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41443
Type
conference item
Titre
Rebuilding the spirit of place: The Fundidora Park of Monterrey
Langues
English
Auteurs
Cantu Delgado, Julieta
Date
2008
Pagination de section
1-10
Titre de conférence
16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’
Lieu de conférence
Quebec, Canada
Date de conférence
29 sept – 4 oct 2008
Mots-clés
industrial heritage / industrial architecture / blast furnaces / re-use / intangible heritage / spirit of place / museums / tentative lists
Pays mentionnés
Mexico
Monuments et sites
Fundidora Park, Monterrey, Mexico
Résumé en anglais
The historical and social meaning of industries inmodern cities, explains their importance as a cultural patrimony
within a society developed and enclosed by work, technologicaldevelopments and the forces of industrial production. Th
iswork presents the case of the Fundidora de Monterrey Park as
the largest iron and steel production industrial complex, in thenorth of Mexico. Now, after its closing, it changes its activities
and introduces new uses, to offer in its original location, acultural space that commemorates its history and recreates the
iron and steel industrial process which was the vocation of itsorigin. The restoration and reuse of the factories, offices and
furnaces, offers a new sense of place that allows to remember,the people and the events that comprise its past, establishing a
relation between the material and the immaterial, in search ofthe reconstruction of the spirit of place.
within a society developed and enclosed by work, technologicaldevelopments and the forces of industrial production. Th
iswork presents the case of the Fundidora de Monterrey Park as
the largest iron and steel production industrial complex, in thenorth of Mexico. Now, after its closing, it changes its activities
and introduces new uses, to offer in its original location, acultural space that commemorates its history and recreates the
iron and steel industrial process which was the vocation of itsorigin. The restoration and reuse of the factories, offices and
furnaces, offers a new sense of place that allows to remember,the people and the events that comprise its past, establishing a
relation between the material and the immaterial, in search ofthe reconstruction of the spirit of place.
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