Casa Florentino Vicente Ferreira: um ensaio de reabilitação

Abstract

Entitled "Casa Florentino Vicente Ferreira - Um ensaio de reabilitação" this dissertation focuses on the rehabilitation of Florentino Vicente Ferreira's House, constructed in 1907, by Francisco Silva Rocha, in the center of Aveiro, integrated in the city's Art Noveau tourist itenerary and that is now in the process of classification. This intenerary was one of the city's measures to assure the conservation and enhancement of Aveiro's Art Noveau buildings. This architectual group is an important identity mark of the city for it's diversity and number but also a mark of an artistic movement that had a brief duration in history (1892 to 1918) but a wide exposure through all Europe, coinciding with deep social, technological and economical changes. In Portugal, and especially in Aveiro, the technological gap compared to the rest of Europe gave rise to a reinterpretation of the new style that was merely used as a decorative element on the façades and some buildings interiors, not being able to keep up with the technological inovations that emerged in the rest of the industrialized world. Tradition and regional materials continued to dictate the constructive techniques. Taking into consideration the principles and guidelines established in the international cultural heritage protection documents, we intend to develope a methodology that supports the several phases of the rehabilitation process of Florentino Vicente Ferreira's house, since it's reconaissance to the intervention proposal. Founded in a historical, artistic and technical research, that allows to identify the past and present functionalities of the building, it's architectual and constructive aspects as well as existing anomalies and it's causes, it's rehabilitation, converting it in a Student Residence, is justified by it's heritage value and less intrusive intervention, maintaining it's authenticity, but also the compatibility and reversibilty of the adopted solutions.