Dissonant harmony

THESIS Rather than restoring buildings to their original time period, success comes from acknowledging visually the changes in the life of a structure - scars and all. Carlo Scarpa recognized this. This author will demonstrate the wisdom of his approach in a restoration/rehabilitation of a typographical factory in Vicenza, Italy, into a small hotel. This is a historic preservation and adaptive reuse project integrating the traditional Italian architecture of three different time periods, including a 1950s modernist addition, to create an architecture of diverse harmony through connections and detailing. In joining adjacent spaces of different time periods and styles, use of rhythm, repetition, color and texture are employed to make the pragmatic visual connection. The poetic connection, however, is more difficult to establish and often more crucial to a successful design. The poetics of design include the mood, feeling, and spirit of design. This comes from harmony and dissonaince: it come -^ from not only things that soothe, but things that shock. Therefore, in adaptive reuse, one should pay reverence not only to historic preservation, but also to historical deviation. It is a balance of the pragmatic and poetic, connected by detailing, that preserves the individual architectunal integrity of each part making up the whole. When this is done, beauty is achieved. According to Alberti, "Beauty exists when a part can neither be added or subtracted from a work without destroying the harmony of the whole" ( ). In this historic preservation adaptive reuse project, harmony will be achieved by the exultation of all the periods rather than by stripping away or reconstruicting add-ons, because deviations and dissident elements provide a source of arousal (or stimulation) to counteract "idealized" restorations. It is, the ability to cause arousal that makes paintings art, noise music, and buildings architecture. FACILITY A historic preservation and adaptive reuse project integrating the traditional Italian architecture of three different time periods, to create an architecture of diverse harmony. The existing buildings will be renovated into an elegant, modestly priced hotel including a restaurant/coffee shop and bar. The renovation will reallocate and organize existing space into facility to provide lodging for travelers. The facility will have both a street-front coffee shop and a river front restaurant with a patio dining area. The facility will have rooms and be approximately square feet. CONTEXT The project is located within the context of central urban Vicenza, Italy. The site is located on the banks of the Bacchiglione River, adjacent to the Ponte Pusteria. The site is in ^heavenly utilized pedestrian area and is in walking distance of many shops and businesses. The Italian tradition of Promenade, provides the potential to develop the street front area as well as a river-walk garden connecting the site to the Parco Querinni.

Name thesis:degree_name

Bachelor of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

Bachelors

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor

Texas Tech University

Year dc:date.issued

1997

Author dc:creator

• Malone, Scott Allen

• Historic buildings -- Remodeling for other use.
• Historic preservation.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/2346/63221

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ttu-ir.tdl.org:2346/63221