Abstract

URIBE KAFFURE, Claudia; LOPEZ PEREZ, Cecilia Teresa  and  RUIZ VALENCIA, Daniel Mauricio. Town halls in Cundinamarca. Case Study of the town hall in the municipality of Cogua. Apuntes [online]. 2014, vol.27, n.1, pp.124-141. ISSN 1657-9763.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.APC27-1.ccce.

With the creation of the first American settlements, the institutions responsible for managing cities and ensuring the proper settlement of the legal, administrative and economic problems of its inhabitants are born. These institutions, which were created by the Spanish, were called councils. The place where they met regularly to session the council was called the Town Hall, Municipal house, government house or guildhall. This article provides a brief overview of the town halls of the colonial era that are still standing in the department of Cundinamarca. Its typology is described in terms of architectural and structural terms, by studying the specific case of the town hall of Cogua. Likewise it is studied the response of the building to service loads and potential seismic events and it is proposed a reinforcement to improve its structural performance.

Keywords : town halls; City Hall; history; structural performance.

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