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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41840

Type

conference item

Titre

The adaptive re-use of buildings : remembrance or oblivion?

Langues

English

Auteurs

Maris Casal, Stella

Lieu de publication

Paris

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2005

Pages

5 p.

Addenda

Handwritten page numbers 159-163 on the printed collected papers.

Titre de conférence

14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’

Lieu de conférence

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Date de conférence

27 – 31 oct 2003

Mots-clés

re-use / adaptive re-use / conversion of buildings / industrial architecture / conservation of architecture / conservation of historic monuments / intangible values / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Argentina

Résumé en anglais

When a building or a site loses its original function, it can be rescued them from abandonment or demolition by adapting them to a new use, specially if their architecture is remarkable and remains in good condition, the areas are flexible and/or the settlement is of special interest. Monuments, from the most important to the humblest ones, are on top of the list of these adaptive re-use policies. Some of them are transformed into museums of themselves, but most of them suffer a renovation based on parameters that preserve their material values with more or less success in order to host a new function. Still, their intangible dimension is seldom fully understood so as to include it into the “spirit” of the new function. If their message is forgotten or shadowed by the revitalisation work, can we call it “giving a new cycle of life” to those monuments? The aim of my proposal is to introduce these points of debate when adapting industrial heritage buildings to new uses, focusing on what concerns cultural and architectural criteria.

Ressource intégrale

yes

Document joint

B1-2_-_Casal_+_photos.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

Document source

26567 - English #26567

N° d'entrée et cote

14852