AGUA DE DIOS, URBAN PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE AS A HYGIENIC HERITAGE

Historical research and academy in times of a pandemic

Abstract

The research around the Lazaretto in Agua de Dios, was the subject of analysis and graphic documentation in agreement between the National University of Colombia and the Ministry of Culture, began as a process of academic contribution about a place declared heritage and significance of water as a healing element, however, from the mandatory isolation decreed around the world, the research also becomes an opportunity to understand how urban planning and heritage architecture in Agua de Dios contribute to health and disease mitigation processes, by investigating the background, the political decision to create lazaretos. The development of a "hygienist urbanism" as a legacy of knowledge in times of pandemic, has a fundamental role in the valuation and conservation of this heritage, in search of better living conditions of a community and its territory.