The double porch, the most significant typological invariantin the nineteenth-century domestic architecture of Sinaloa

Abstract

This paper deals with the genesis and development of the typological invariant that identifies the housing of the state of Sinaloa in the history of domestic architecture in the Sinaloan territory.  It is a subject that allows access to knowledge of the evolution of housing, based on documentary evidence and material evidence. This is done by referring to the long-term historical time at the same level as the pre-Hispanic, viceregal, and nineteenth-century structures. Here, from the typologies, the development of the space dedicated to housing throughout history is characterized. The analysis in this work is adjusted to the guidelines set by the history sciences and for consistency in the conservation of cultural heritage. Where cultural expressions are approached from every day in a sociocultural context conditioned by the isolation that determined the distance and fairness, in a society that lived in isolation and that nevertheless, at the end of the 19th century, it produced a typological constant identified as the Sinaloa double porch.