PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The functional program remains predominantly the original one, with a limited new program.

This small theatre, built in front of the residence of Count Farrobo, and named after one of the ninth Muses, Talia (in Portuguese: Thália), the ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The investor is the property owner.

After being ceded to the Lisbon Zoo in 1905, and after several changes of ownership, the site was purchased by the Portuguese State in 1948 ...

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BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The overall dimensions are about twice the pre-existing surface.

In 1840 the area was scarcely occupied by palaces and adjacent gardens and farms. The new intervention, in the face of the impossibility of restoring ...

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BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The overall dimensions are about twice the pre-existing volume.

In 1840 the area was scarcely occupied by palaces and adjacent gardens and farms. The new intervention, in the face of the impossibility of restoring ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new spaces are in balance with respect to the pre- existing spaces.

The existing volumes are largely transformed by the intervention, which reveals the hidden spatiality of the theatre. The new structure at ground level is a ...

PREVALENT REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The supporting structure is predominantly a new structure.

After being abandoned, the remains of the building became to a slow consumption that lasted for almost one hundred and fifty years, a condition exasperated ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The materials chosen for the new intervention balance similarities and differences with the existing ones.

The exterior of the box, the pure volume, is covered by cement treated with a chemical finish, the final material: the uniform texture of the ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new intervention balances elements of continuity and discontinuity with respect to existing structures.

The project for the conversion of the Thalia Theatre is a new urban complex balanced between ancient and contemporary; using a limited palette of materials ...

PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The functional program remains predominantly the original one, with a limited new program.

The museum stands, in fact, on an artificial platform composed by the cryptoporticus, built halfway through first century BC, as the podium of the Forum ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The investor is the property owner.

The Museu Nacional Machado de Castro has been hosted in the building since the beginning of the last century, when the Coimbra City Council agreed ...

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PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions increase moderately with respect to the pre-existing surface.

The main entrance of the Museum keeps both the original gate of the ex-bishop’s palace and its central courtyard as an essential void, emphasizing hidden ...

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BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The overall dimensions are about twice the pre-existing volume.

The main entrance of the Museum keeps both the original gate of the ex-bishop’s palace and its central courtyard as an essential void, emphasizing hidden ...

PREVALENT REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The new spaces are prevalent with respect to the pre-existing spaces.

Almost all the existing spaces of the museum are transformed by the new intervention. Due to the complex nature of the historical remains, and especially ...

PREVALENT REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The supporting structure is predominantly a new structure.

New structures are designed not only to support new buildings but also to show the ruins of the old ones; entering the complex, on the ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The materials chosen for the new intervention balance similarities and differences with the existing ones.

The lower volume adapts to the existing layout of the streets; the stone cladding is not mimetic, but consistent with the solid matter of the ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new intervention balances elements of continuity and discontinuity with respect to existing structures.

The adoption of contemporary criticism of the constant mingling of container and content is the primary feature of the project in order to correct the ...

PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The functional program remains predominantly the original one, with a limited new program.

The project involved the completion of the restoration of the Renaissance monumental body to return it to public use, the urban regeneration through the demolition ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: Balanced financing between the original owner and another investor.

As a military area then abandoned, this place represented an inaccessible area in the heart of the historical city until the moment of rediscovery for ...

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TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions are equal to the pre-existing surface.

The Cloisters of St. Peter follow the casuistry of other coeval and large complexes, partly showing the unfinished and partly signs of stratified transformations that ...

NO VARIATION
TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions are equal to the pre-existing volume.

The Cloisters of St. Peter follow the casuistry of other coeval and large complexes, partly showing the unfinished and partly signs of stratified transformations that ...

PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: Pre-existing spaces are prevalent with respect to new spaces.

Among the rediscovered parts, certainly the most important was the reopening of the last rampant of the seventeenth-century stairwell, which was incorporated with the function ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The supporting structure is composed in a balanced way by pre-existing structures and new structures.

Given the nature of the complex, and the attribution of the Great Cloister by Bruno Adorni to the hand of Giulio Romano, but also for ...

PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The materials chosen for the new intervention show more similarities than differences compared to the pre-existing ones.

Conceived as a sequence of three large serial spaces, the new Laboratories building is characterized by maximum internal flexibility also in relation to the external ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The new intervention is in total mimetic continuity with the existing structures.

The greenery newly inserted in the courtyard areas is not of the horizontal type but vertical, also to allow maximum flexibility in the use of ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new program is in balance with the existing one.

To clear a sufficient surface and to give a roof to the space required for the parliamentary debates, the rooms of commissions and the refreshment ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The investor is the property owner.

Funding is entirely provided by the canton. The budget was the subject of an investment loan voted by the parliament and submitted to a referendum.

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PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions increase moderately with respect to the pre-existing surface.

The volumetric variation comes from a surface gain of the parliamentary room cantilevered on the perimeter of the historic walls at the southern and western ...

NO VARIATION
TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions are equal to the pre-existing volume.

The volumetric variation comes from a surface gain of the parliamentary room cantilevered on the perimeter of the historic walls at the southern and western ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: There are no new spaces.

No new spaces have been created. New access was broken by demolishing a building of low heritage value. This allowed to highlight parts of older ...

PREVALENT REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The supporting structure is predominantly a new structure.

The fire destroyed or heavily damaged all existing supporting structures. In addition to the consolidation of the foundation walls on which the new project relies, ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The materials chosen for the new intervention balance similarities and differences with the existing ones.

Reinforced concrete replaced the stone construction, which was of poor quality as a result of the water used to spread the fire. The roof frame ...

PREVALENT REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The new intervention favors a relationship of discontinuity with the existing structures.

“The true tradition in great things is not to redo what others have done, but to rediscover the spirit that does these things and that ...

TOTAL REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The new functional program has completely replaced the original one.

The town of Huéscar needed to complete its cultural infrastructure in the northern sector of the urban area, with the incorporation of new public facilities. ...

TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The investor is the property owner.

City council of Huéscar.

NO VARIATION
TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions are equal to the pre-existing surface.

The convent complex, made up of the church and the convent nave, is built on a plot of about 1,900 m2, located at the northwest ...

NO VARIATION
TOTAL CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The overall dimensions are equal to the pre-existing volume.

The convent complex, made up of the church and the convent nave, is built on a plot of about 1,900 m2, located at the northwest ...

PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: Pre-existing spaces are prevalent with respect to new spaces.

The interior spaces are maintained without the construction of new compartments that weaken the global vision of the whole. In this way, the entire exhibition ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The supporting structure is composed in a balanced way by pre-existing structures and new structures.

The intervention respects the existing as much as possible and the new elements, such as the staircases, are made in a technologically contemporary way, with ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The materials chosen for the new intervention balance similarities and differences with the existing ones.

The project strategy consists of the recovery of the space respecting to the maximum the existing thing adapting it to room of exhibitions. The sunken ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The new intervention balances elements of continuity and discontinuity with respect to existing structures.

Action has been taken in accordance with the criteria of the Spanish Historical Heritage Law, which establishes that action on immovable property shall be aimed ...

TOTAL REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The new functional program has completely replaced the original one.

The new building is intended to be the town hall and civic centre of San Fernando de Henares. The access to the town hall follows ...

PREVALENT REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: Financing for a minor part made by the original owner, mostly from another investor.

The building belongs to the council of San Fernando de Henares, where the headquarters and departments are based. The site and historical remainings are part ...

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TOTAL REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The overall dimensions are more than four times the pre- existing surface.

The building is fully new, since the main goal is to only reuse the remainings of the historical facade. The square proposed in the Masterplan ...

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TOTAL REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The overall dimensions are more than four times the pre- existing volume.

The building is fully new, since the main goal is to only reuse the remainings of the historical facade. The square proposed in the Masterplan ...

TOTAL REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The new spaces have completely replaced the existing spaces.

The surface of the main facade (120 meters long) is the only one to be preserved. Thus, all the spaces are built from scratch.

PREVALENT REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The supporting structure is predominantly a new structure.

The existing facade requires consolidation and structural reinforcement for its preservation. An exhaustive rehabilitation process is carried out, including the underpinning of foundations through a ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The materials chosen for the new intervention balance similarities and differences with the existing ones.

The use of stone as a traditional constructive material in this project arises from the need of restoring and completing the 18th century facade of ...

PREVALENT CONSERVATION / CONTINUITY: The new intervention favors a relationship of continuity with the existing structures.

The image of the building is based on the will of harnessing the historical facade, making it explicitly different from the new opposite one. The ...

TOTAL REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The new functional program has completely replaced the original one.

The new extension of the Fine Arts Museum of Asturias, a very important north Spanish region, is integrated into an urban complex which through successive ...

BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: Balanced financing between the original owner and another investor.

The project is the result of a public tender. From the beginning, the city council, as owner of the museum, made it clear that the ...

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BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The overall dimensions are about twice the pre-existing surface.

The most important element of the project is the maintenance of the facades of the existing buildings, although it was not a demand of the ...

EXTENSION
BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND REPLACEMENT: The overall dimensions are about twice the pre-existing volume.

The most important element of the project is the maintenance of the facades of the existing buildings, although it was not a demand of the ...

TOTAL REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The new spaces have completely replaced the existing spaces.

The new extension spaces have completely replaced the existing spaces. The project preserves the urban canvas formed by these facades, freeing the interior through complete ...

TOTAL REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The original supporting structure has been completely replaced by a new structure.

To carry out the enlargement, the museum for a time went about buying adjacent buildings facing Calle de la Rua. These were buildings erected in ...

PREVALENT REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The materials chosen for the new intervention show more differences than similarities compared to the pre-existing.

The new building will be discernible from outside through the naked openings of the historical facades. Openings deprived of frames, as in an old ruin, ...

PREVALENT REPLACEMENT / DISCONTINUITY: The new intervention favors a relationship of discontinuity with the existing structures.

The materials chosen for the new intervention are completely different from the pre-existing ones. The new volume is glazed, luminous, seeking to catch reflections of ...