Contrapontos entre teoria e prática da conservação/restauração do patrimônio histórico edificado: o caso do Grande Hotel de Pelotas/RS.

Abstract

Heritage listed by the city in the year 1986, the Grand Hotel represents an undeniable marc of the agrarian economy and the jerked beef industry of Pelotas. Situated in the historical center of this city, this edification, in an eclectic and historicist style, was built in the second decade of the twentieth century and express the aesthetic and historical values that consecrated it as a heritage property. After the registration as a Culture Heritage, the building received two restoration interventions through the Monumenta Program. The first project – which comprehended the frontage and roof restoration – was executed in 2004. The second project – which regards to the readjustment of the building as a Hotel Training School – was divided in two steps. The first one, started in 2009, was executed the remodeling of fundamental aspects of the internal space, which one interfered and mischaracterized partially the aesthetic and historical aspects of the building. The focus of this dissertation is analyzing the dialectic between the restoration theories and the practices carried out in the restorative interventions, using the Grand Hotel as a contextual element. The starting point was the assumption that the restoration results in the decision making act, which refers in part to the technical aspect, but that are based, especially on essential concepts to sustain the interventions, since these directly affect the memory you want to keep. Objectively, the dissertation is focused in three aspects which are: the verification of criteria and the theoretical principles of conservation-restoration, the application of the international recommendation and the attention to the heritage laws, especially in regard to the law of municipal Heritage listing. Among the findings of the study includes the recognition about the non-observance of these three aspects, amid a reality which evidences the complexity of processes that are clearly affected by the social and political environment in which it develops the practice of restoration.