THE ASSISMENT OF MAYA VERNACULAR HERITAGE

FROM UNIVERSE CONCEPT TO POVERTY CONCEPT

Abstract

The traditional technique maya housing construction is the representation of the Mayan worldview, it is expressed through the name of each construction element meanings of the  creation of the  universe and man, is  also referred to the  body and the concept of  a living. For many  centuries it was  the oral tradition  and construction practices  that kept this  knowledge and knowing,  until the process  of deterioration with colonialism,  the arrival of the  Spanish was a watershed in  its decline to the  undervaluation and contempt.  The international designations like  vernacular architecture of  little have served before the  governmental programs that  continue it cataloguing like noncompatible  an inhabitable space  with their criteria of  “quality of life”, nor with  the schemes of tie financing  to industrialized materials. Recent proposals for housing support maya  not provide its being as its spatial bioclimatic architecture and a way of  life, encouraging new construction beyond  its dynamic and  undervalued the maya  solar microhabitat. Urges a reassessment based  on its original conception, in  its sustainable architectural feature in  your living space according to  the social dynamics of its inhabitants and  its recognition as a  cultural heritage.