Continuar os Antigos: Teatro de Marcello e Casa em Briteiros

Abstract

"Continue the Ancients" is to understand how it was possible, today as in the past, intervene on pre-existing, with asset value without breaking the continuity of life of buildings (in this context, it should be noted that the word life takes a direction nearly poetic), ie, get an old building retains its timeliness, achieved through a new refunctionalization, as well as updating the original function, so that it becomes thus useful for the present, without, however, on one hand lead to its distortion and, secondly, to its absolute sacralization. We search the utility needed from the building in the present, as at the time of their primary function in the past without resorting to his original refund (mimesis), whereas some conditions and needs of man and space are not the same today as yesterday . It is intended that the old building is so fundamental to the vital needs of modern man, as it was for the old man, answering the question of the reason to be of architecture, related to the intervention on pre-existence. From the recognition of the analogy between the study of ancient (classical Roman architecture from the traditional Portuguese architecture) we develop, as a counterpoint, the comparison between the Baldassarre Peruzzi's intervention on an ancient Roman theater in Rome, and the intervention of Fernando Távora about a home's architecture dictates popular in northern Portugal, by identifying the conceptual similarity between the two interventions, with 500 years apart. With the aim of raising awareness about the problem of intervention on pre-existence and to respect the old buildings, but making it useful to the present, we need to appeal to the study of ancient architecture and its authors, proposing view in the art of the past a means to intervene in the present.