APPROPRIATION, SIGNIFICATION AND EMPTY SPACE. THE CASE OF THE FORMER LEÓN GTO RAILWAY STATION

Abstract

The investigation reported in this text addresses the issue of appropriation not from the symbolic possession of an urban-architectural space, but from its opposite, from the absence of symbolic charge, or better, from the initial moments in which the social group attributes symbolism to that space. The theoretical-philosophical postulates of Gilles Deleuze (2002) are used around the 'empty box' as a reference in the assessment of the data collected on the
former railway station in León, Guanajuato; the mutations in the concept of heritage, the idea of Industrial Heritage, a fire in the former station and the means of bringing the building closer to the population of León are analyzed as factors of incidence. Conceptually, it is a theoretical study that seeks the relationship between the philosophical statements and the historical-patrimonial reality of the building; methodologically, it is a quantitative analysis
in the collection and interpretation of the data obtained.