EXPERIMENTATIONS ON POST FILM HERITAGE, ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DIALOGUES BETWEEN THE SAN JORGE TEATHER AND ITS URBAN CONTEXT.

EXPERIMENTATIONS ON POST-FILM HERITAGE Architectural and urban dialogues between the Teatro San Jorge and it’s present context. The process of urban transformation that took place in the city of Bogota in the first half of the 20th century had an evident and vertiginous change of dynamics, consolidating new areas and generating decadence and abandonment in others. The locality of Los Mártires is part of this last group, being a territory with complex urban and social dynamics, where certain spaces have not allowed the total usufruct according to the current needs of the city and the inhabitants of the sector. Within the limits of the sector there are still vestiges of its greatest splendour at the beginning of the 21st century, which at the time, with the arrival of the railway and the Sabana Station, triggered the exponential growth of the residents of the area, which generated the arrival of new services. The San Jorge theatre, an iconic building in the neighbourhood, struggles to avoid falling into the abyss of oblivion, like many of the heritage buildings in the sector, as a result of a long list of problems facing the territory, mainly linked to the heterogeneity of industrial uses and the abundant parking areas, spaces that have within their genetic code a lack of permeability with regard to the territory in which they are consolidated; In addition to this, a weak response to social problems such as street dwellers and drug dealing centres (ollas), make Los Mártires a space conducive to dangerous situations for its residents. More over, another factor that makes it impossible to use the urban space as an area for meeting and collective activities is the lack of public spaces, such as parks, alleys or soft areas. All of this has led to a deterioration in the quality of life of the sector's inhabitants and, as a consequence, an exponential growth in the negative perception of this area of the city.