Tesis doctoral de Elizabeth Cardenas Arroyo
This work is about the creative [re]use of existing buildings, the continuity of their use with functions different to the original one that they were created for. The main objective is to explain the creative [re]use, a new methodology to create a coherent and also contemporary project, in generally old existing structures, that have been conserved to the present time but no longer serve to their original function, and that represent the identity of a city and to their society. This work also wants to show the importance of this type of projects in the processes of social and urban renewal of the cities. It insists on the intrinsic capacity of the buildings to be adapted to new uses and the importance of the projects of this type in the stabilization of the urban structures, mainly in the european cities, with an old past and a considerable built patrimony. The functional change of the architectures, still when is practiced many centuries before, is a decisive factor in the identification of the architecture of the 20th century. Important examples as the reuse of the castelvecchio of verona, or the covent garden market and the tate modern museum in london, are only a few in a very extensive panorama to study the creative [re]use. The study begins with a historic and theoretical framework on the architectural conservation, to explain the first incursions of men in the maintenance of their built monuments and the diverse intervention modalities that have applied since then are clarified. The terminology is studied to explain and to expand the concept of creative [re]use, taken from the english architect derek latham. Thus, creative [re]use is a process where significant buildings and with capacity to continue to be used, are repaired and improved to give them a different and new use, maintaining the essence of the building, the original character of the physical and formal structure, but admitting an intervention and partial addition that reflects a contemporary time
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral «Arquitecturas transformadas: reutilizacion adaptativa de edificaciones en lisboa 1980-2002. los antiguos conventos.«
- Título de la tesis: Arquitecturas transformadas: reutilizacion adaptativa de edificaciones en lisboa 1980-2002. los antiguos conventos.
- Autor: Elizabeth Cardenas Arroyo
- Universidad: Politécnica de catalunya
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 31/03/2008
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Victor Neves
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: josep Muntañola thornbergs
- mario Joao chaves (vocal)
- cesar Diaz gomez (vocal)
- paulo Tormenta pinto (vocal)