Instituto de investigación paleontológica: Krono-Helix.

Abstract

The design development of the paleontological institute in the municipality of Villa de Leyva has been based on an investigative and learning process, both architectural and geoscience, paleontology is the science that studies the ecosystems of the past through the fossil records that are known to us. left until today, more specifically residues of ancient animal or plant species, this geoscience has been increasingly prioritized in recent decades in order to understand and in a certain way predict the process of change that the planet is undergoing. Colombia is one of the countries with the most fossil records due to its prehistoric characteristics, as the planet evolved and changed, the marine surface that Colombia had progressively disappeared, causing the specimens that lived in these waters to die and remain fossilized in the Colombian territory. where Villa de Leyva is one of the municipalities with the largest number of fossil records found and studied. Villa de Leyva is a municipality that bases its economy mainly on tourism and other activities secondarily, this tourism is based in part on these studies and fossil finds, however, this science is still not given due relevance, generating a lack of interest in possible sources of study and professionalization of more than the ignorance of handling these important specimens. The approach of the project is developed with the aim of adapting and innovating in spaces for learning and studying paleontology through innovative and evolutionary architecture; Through a research methodology of interviews and primary and secondary sources of information, a scheme is developed which concludes in a project that integrates institutional, tourist and scientific elements, which meets the stated objectives.