Diálogos con la pre-existencia: lectura crítica de proyectos de intervención sobre el patrimonio cultural de Coimbra en las últimas decadas

This work aims to contribute with part of the knowledge in the field of Building Rehabilitation through the study of the interpretative categories of contemporary intervention in historical pre-existences, as proposed by three different authors related to the italian heritage conservation: Claudio Varagnoli, Giovanni Carbonara and Beatrice Vivio. Based on these concepts, six intervention cases among the cultural heritage of the municipality of Coimbra, Portugal have been studied: Centro de Artes Visuais; the Monastery of Santa-Clara-a-Velha and the National Museum Machado de Castro. The proposed analysis consists of a critical reading of the dialogues which the intervention principles and design solutions assume with their respective pre-existences, aiming to understand the different kinds of linguistic, material, functional and temporal relations between the old and the new, in a perspective of recognition of its values and its transmission into the future.