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[EN] Intervention in architectural heritage involves reflecting on a pre-existing architecture
that has been transformed over time. In turn, the new action raises the need to create a
new layer on the inherited architecture ...[+]
[EN] Intervention in architectural heritage involves reflecting on a pre-existing architecture
that has been transformed over time. In turn, the new action raises the need to create a
new layer on the inherited architecture that allows it to adapt to new requirements.
Therefore, the different stages in a monument¿s life are fundamental factors in the design
process, requiring an understanding of its past through the events of history, recognition
of its present as a consolidated material pre-existence, and its possibilities for the future
as an adaptation to current requirements that will ensure its survival over time.
Furthermore, this new layer needs to link with the monument¿s past and present through
a specific compositional strategy in which time is presented as a concept that generates
interesting resources capable of favouring an effective dialogue between the parts.
Precisely because of its historical character, the monument incorporates a whole series of
formal and material conditions that are the product of the passage of time. So, the new
intervention can refer to them to establish this necessary dialogue.
This research aims to explore these compositional resources used in architectural
heritage interventions, in which time emerges as a concept that generates the design
process. To this end, the case study of the conversion of the Escuelas Pías church into a
library is chosen in which various resources can be found to obtain a wide range of
strategies that can serve as a reference for future interventions.
The compositional tools detected cover a wide range of relationship possibilities ranging
from integration with a specific time of the monument to the simulation of different
strata that respond in a fragmented manner to each specific temporal circumstance
present in the monument¿s pre-existence. Time is materialised through formal or
material identification with a temporal stratum present in the monument¿s history. This
way, different possibilities are covered, from identifying with an eternal and immutable
time to creating current and ephemeral strata, from creating a timeless architecture to
searching for specific stylistic identification.
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