“In a building of historical value the most important idea is to restore. Although, in a paradoxical way, to rehabilitate is to transform and answer to new needs. I think we should not be afraid to change the original building and to add something new. Changes can and should bring value. The methodology should be flexible enough to allow an architect to have a personal method of drawing and design that, accordingly to his beliefs, can make him approach an historical building as a whole, a space that includes different times and different interventions. The context is very important and the idea of integration is the key… I would like to see more young architects working on rehabilitation projects. To build from scratch is not that important. What matters is to design spaces that give us a felling of belonging. I know that each generation wants to leave a “mark”, but it’s possible to do so in an existing building"
João Mendes Ribeiro - Renovation of an old boiler room to a photographic studies building at Universida de Coimbra, 2008. Via, (interview via), photos © Fernando Guerra.
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