TRANSFORMAREA SPAȚIULUI ARHITECTURAL – ÎNTRE PROVOCARE ȘI LIMITĂ

Abstract

A superficial perspective on architecture may induce the impression that it consists in the analysis of a long series of “containers”, conceived to shelter activities, technically named "programmes". This inaccurate interpretation is distanced from the inner sense of “frozen music”, as defined by Goethe. Seen as an engine of civilizations across history, architecture acts as a phenomenon, answering to a dynamics defined both in a social scale and in a family or individual scale. We are using today pedantic terms, such as “conversion”, “resilience” or the English term "adaptive re-use", with the impression that these are conquests of our present thinking. But this process has been followed as well when Roman amphitheatres have been transformed into living areas or when Greek and Roman temples sheltered Christian basilicas, every epoch proving its own conception on the pragmatism of re-using a pre-existing building fund.