Parque Hotel: adaptando a “Modernidade” a uma nova função de uso

Abstract

This study propose a critical analysis about the possibility with using historical buildings, without need to mischaracterization according to contemporary restoration precepts. Emphasizing the Parque Hotel Building as na object of study, modernist heritage inserted in the historic site located in the Centro district, of Maceió City, Alagoas State, Brazil. It should be noted that due to the pandemic caused by Covid-19, it wasnt’t possible to access the Building, so that study is presented here as a guideline for a proposal that can later be deepened, but that reaffirms and proves the argument that occurred throughout the text. It is also proposed a theoretical reflection on the use of Social Interest Housing in idle historical buildings, not leaving aside the comparative debatebetween preservation of history, sometimes, opposes the aesthetic concepts of contemporary architecture. For this purpose, the changes that have already occurred in the property and the possible modifications for the changes of use were identified, respecting the historical and aesthetic characteristics of the building. It is intended, therefore, to preserve aspects that characterize it as cultural heritage, making it again a reference for residentes, both in the Centro district, wjth to other places. So that not only target audience, but the population, can recognize it again as na architecture that materializes important facts from their memory. Because, the important attributed to a modernist example for the Alagoas State, it is not based only on the safeguarding of a physical construction, but on the cultural symbolism Applied to heritage preservation.