Conservação e restauro de uma ruína. Casa do pároco em Escarei, Ribeiro de Pena

Abstract

This thesis consisted in the elaboration of a project for the recovery of a small house, located in a small village of Trás-os-Montes, in a temporal space corresponding to the 18th century. The work recognizes an attitude of architectural contextualization that explores and relates to pre-existences, it investigates and looks for evidence in it to recover, intervene, alter. The past is a promoter of the future, and the intervention process began with the intuition that the ruin and the place imposed on us. There has always been a need for the metamorphosis of buildings, this is transversal to the entire history of architecture. Buildings need to adapt, reuse, and revise. There is an idea, and also the need, when working on the built, to adapt to the circumstances in which pre-existences allows us, safeguarding the classical principles of harmony of volumes, geometrical layouts, rhythm of spans and stone masonry appliances. We tried to understand different intervention criteria such as: rehabilitation, preservation, and restoration, and refining concepts that underlie such attitudes. The challenge of this work is essentially to adapt to the current program, in the new and old relationship, the idea of permanence and transformation of the typology. Thus, we sought to reflect on the hypotheses that best responded to the need to relate the existing with the programmatic and comfort requirements that a building currently requires.