Central Hidroeléctrica do Biel. A memória do espaço

Abstract

This dissertation, Hydroelectric Biel, wants above all to serve as a complement to the academic route. A thematic approach to intervention in pre existing buildings is an issue rarely addressed throughout the course. Thus, we sought to acquire, consolidate and cruising knowledge to enable a more aware and informed in the act of intervening in the pre existence look. Starting from the idea of creating a project to restore the old Biel Central emerged the need to monitor the performance of the project with a research and theoretical reflection. Thus, the work is structured in five chapters, through which is created a thread that helps us in the gradual construction and founded a project proposal. In order to understand the various views and perspectives relating to preexisting architectural objects, and above all understand what criteria are considered critical to its recovery and consecration analyzed the concept of heritage and its evolution over time. Then, in a logic of continuity in the second chapter, an approach to theoretical concepts such as is done: ruin, time, memory, deemed fundamental to understanding the case study itself. These concepts allowed foremost frame the object of study, projective raise issues and create practical and theoretical to the completion of the proposed Biel Central rehabilitation. The concepts addressed, followed by a third stage in which a framework is made of the territory through which we can understand its geographical historical context. Following a more general framework an approach to the case study, which addresses the historical, cultural and social context of the building, and therefore the changes to which it was subject throughout the ages, included a survey of current state arises . Finally the presentation of two project proposals, resulting in two different strategies arises. The first and more immediate embryonic proposal being developed at an early stage, when there still existed an awareness on the true essence of the architectural object. The second proposal comes, not as an alternative but as the first result of a progressive construction of a reasoning, grounding and sustained throughout the theoretical component that was being discussed and developed simultaneously. Thus it is chosen to take and submit two proposals, as a constructive process of an architectural project, accepting and considering that the advances and setbacks are operational tools, often critical to achieving a proposal.