HISTORIC BUILDINGS COMPARISONS OF PATHOLOGIES AND INTERVENTIONS: EXAMPLES OF REUSE

Abstract

In the recent years, many Gulf States have emerged because of their significant urban growth to contemporary architecture. In the same time, the growing number of conservation projects shows the raising need to enforce appreciation of the architectural heritage, to enhance and regenerate the historical memory of the counties. This paper offers a comparison between some recent conservative projects in Qatar conducted to some significant residential religious and commercial buildings, analyzing the pathologies that affected the structures, the reasons of deterioration before the restorative interventions, the comparison of methods and techniques that were adopted during the works and the proposals for reuse. Analyses of the data have permitted to classify the building pathologies and the conducted interventions and could be applied to other conservation projects in the future.