A Igreja de Santa Iria, Um Regresso ao Passado: Projecto de Intervenção

• Autor(a) principal: Maria Helena de Sousa Mota Riesenberger Bernardo
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/112112
• topic: Artes; Arts

The purpose of the following thesis is the exploration, development,research and reflection of the intervention methodology in built heritage, havingas main focus the religious buildings.Starting from an academic work developed for the subject of History ofPortuguese Architecture, it is studied the peculiar case of the Convent Churchof Santa Iria, erected in the beginning of the XVI century, that, thanks to itsarchitectural value, becomes a relevant study object and with interest for theexecution of an intervention proposal. This building was the target of severaltransformations over time, of which highlights the introduction of baroque elementsin its interior, in the beginning of the XVII, and the removal from itsvolume of the high and low choir, at the end of the XIX century, resulting in thediminishing of its size and the change of its proportions.From an introductory approach to the main themes of the history ofintervention in built heritage and from the study of references of interventions,considered relevant for the object that is being studied, a methodology of interventionwas developed, thought with the intent to solve the problems and needsof the building that is being studied.As such, the presented proposal is the result of a reflection that startedfrom the study of the origins, the history, the transformations and the currentcontext, with the goal of returning the building's dignity and to reconnect it withthe community of Tomar.