Evaluation of Thermal Behavior in the Built Heritage of the Historical Center of the Riobamba City

The inclusion of natural environmental conditioning systems and passive energy design becomes a necessity for the conservation of the built heritage of the Historic Center of Riobamba. Therefore, the purpose of the research is to describe and disclose the causes of the energy transmission processes and the constructive adjustments made by its users. Modernization has meant in the sociocultural field the disappearance of an environmentalist culture in the formal-spatial sphere, the loss of the sense of "sustainability" and the environmental identity of colonial architecture in the face of the circulatory chaos, parking, noise and pollution of modernity of the historic center. The methodology used is descriptive, explaining a case study on energy transmission and architecture, which shows the constructive adjustments to the environmental conditioning of homes made by its inhabitants. A selective sampling of housing typologies, location and location was used through three data collection instruments: direct observation, comfort survey, and environmental parameters registry. What revealed the distance between the needs of users and architectural programs, as well as ratify the relevance and ownership of the actions of environmental conditioning of heritage buildings.