Presente sobre pasado: relaciones entre arquitecturas
- Autores: Victòria Pons Garcías
- Directores de la Tesis: Eduard Bru Bistuer (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2014
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Robert Brufau Niubó (presid.), Cristina Jover Fontanals (secret.), Isabela de Rentería Cano (voc.), Luis Velasco Roldán (voc.), Enric Llorach Herrero (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
The thesis is about the relations that interventions establish with the precedent architecture where they act. The work deeply analyzes the connection between the new part and the pre-existing architecture. The intervention in existing buildings is not something new. The approach of this investigation is based on the formal, material and constructive relation towards the existing part. A sensible and determining point in interventions is the meeting point between new and old. This connection is demonstrated in its concrete sense- as a space fragment where the contact is produced- and in its abstract sense- or relationship between architectures. This work is focus in the materiality of this connection. In first place we review the influences of restoration theories. The study of intervention projects (from Modern movement until nowadays) defines three families depending on the relation and connection established with preexistence. Those lines, that form the three chapters of the thesis, are: joints (differentiation), transition (continuity), and fusion (lock). Joints are connections used by the interventions to express a disruption of the new work with the existing language and its material. The old and the new. In this chapter we analyze some examples that present a space or neutral element as separation between existing and new. lt is the case of: Maison de verre, Castelvecchio and Goteborg 's city hall. The transition is the connection constructed by continuing the existing space and language. In this second chapter, we studied examples that do not make the distinction between old and new, but a homogenization continuing the existing language. lt is the case of: Goteborg's city hall 1934 version, London National gallery extension and the Spain national bank extension. Fusions are connections realized as a direct contact or lock with the existing building but with a different language. They don't reject contemporary language to subordinate to the existing one, but they mix. In this third chapter, we analyze examples that express a lock matching plans with the existing, but with a different language, and creating a tension among the different parts and languages to become a complex unity. Existing and new complement themselves. The parts, even being easily recognizable and identifiable, they form a whole; a monolithic unity. lt is the case of: Gugalun house, Kolumba museum, Utrecht city hall, Fouquet hotel intervention, and LP2. Described attitudes, transmit an appreciation of the past: a new element that wants to be different, in contrast to the existing; a new element as an extension of the existing; or a new element that wants to be integrated with the existing without neglecting their differences. The importance given to the idea, as guideline for the intervention, (found by Viollet-le-Duc into the existing building), becomes now in the concretion and appreciation of the existing singularities. The distinction between new and existing, coming from the moral judgment of Ruskin and the scientist restoration present in the Modern Movement's principles is still going on in certain interventions. The formal analogy defined by Capitel and Solà-Morales as the dialog established by certain interventions with the past, arises as alternative to the modern contrast. The hypothesis is that there is a sensibility change towards the architecture that precedes us. This work defense that the joint, or differentiation with the architecture of the past, weakens to become, through an analogical relation research , a merge between preexistence and new part. A unitary whole formed by recognizable times , but linking both architectures. This change of attitude towards the fusion can be explained by a self-criticism of our recent past, the Modern Movement and its promises, but mostly, as a demonstration of the present will that is to incorporate the presence of the past.
