Aproximación metodológica para la puesta en valor del patrimonio industrial. Un caso de estudio: “el martinete de Alar del Rey”

Abstract

According to the National Plan for Industrial Heritage, “movable and immovable property and social systems related to the culture of work, must be understood as a whole composed by the landscape in which they are integrated, the industrial relations in which they are structured, the architectures that characterize them, the techniques used in their procedures, the files generated during their activity and their symbolic practices”. In many cases, machinery of the manufacturing processes subsists in the industrial building. Other times, due to the independent nature of movable property, they acquire a particular obsolescence and fragility. Our case study is one of the original ""artifacts"" of the Industrial Heritage of Castilla y León, specifically, the mallet of the first lock of the Canal de Castilla, ""the mallet of Alar del Rey"". In order to recognize and dignify both, the industrial building and its integrated movable properties, it has been necessary to analyze the machinery of similar industries to formulate hypotheses about its form and function. Likewise, to proceed with the analysis and graphic reconstruction, it has been essential the help of graphic and written documents.