Resumen de Three-dimensional reconstruction within the crypto-history of architecture, for the historical-cultural (re)interpretation of architectural heritage in Portugal

Eduardo Francisco Durao Antunes, Pedro Miguel Gomes Januario, Paulo Jorge Garcia Pereira

• The systematic strategies for architectural heritage preservation have been sparse of an evolving knowledge of its design process. This results from applying intervention criteria that essentially value formal aspects, neglecting its principles and context. By considering the conceptual iconological aspects of a disappeared work of art, Crypto-History allows us to understand its symbols’ past origin, whose ideological basis does not have the same cultural recognition nowadays. Applied to architecture, we believe that a methodology that explores the crypto-historical process in identifying the design criteria of historical works, integrated with the research possibilities provided by three-dimensional virtual representation tools, will allow the identification of the original stylistic conceptions’ meaning and, thus, contribute to an integrated (re)interpretation of the current architectural heritage in Portugal.