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The restitution of heritage with virtual survey of cloud points of buildings to be demolished is of great importance both for culture and for the management of the city. The specific case of the Guruyú tenement, in the Old City of Montevideo, represents a typical way of living for a large part of the Afro-descendant population -and other migrant minorities- of Uruguay, which characterized a way of life and which, due to the new Hygiene standards at the beginning of the 20th century were becoming obsolete. Currently that property, one of the last of its category, is in danger of collapsing due to its dilapidated state. The importance of patrimonial restitution then lies in the need to preserve and record the original characteristics of the building, to leave testimony of material keys and a way of life that is part of urban history and culture. In the case of Montevideo, the demolition of tenements -when they were still inhabited- represented the loss of an important cultural heritage and the expulsion of part of that population to the urban peripheries.