Concha & Toro Vineyard Caves at San Miguel: Unearthing the forgotten.

• Main Author: Felipe Gallardo Gastelo
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Chile 2017-11-01
• Series: Revista de Arquitectura
• Online Access: https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/article/view/47689

Anachronism at Europe when created in Chile, buried whine caves constitute a reckoned heritage that has been object of romantic-touristic evocation, collective forgetfulness or community myth, being the latter two, alternate commonplaces of the case study. The present article seeks to begin establishing that the value and strategies of architectural intervention in given heritage should consider additional categories other than conventional ones, in terms of classification, historic-aesthetic value, technology and managing. The former, as a new way of challenging a local context of resource shortage and normative precariousness, for the addressing of heritage building rehabilitation projects. A current context where developer’s interests seem -at times- overlapped over any community interest, cultural heritage included.