Synchronized
The core of our cities are composed by the old, antique, long lasting buildings which were built decades ago and are still of great importance to our culture and knowledge.
Old Town and Cathedral in Burgos.
"The tremendous antithesis between the modern and the ancient world is the outcome of all those things tha exist now and did not exist then. Elements have entered into out life of whose very possibility the ancients did not even dream. Material possibilities and attitudes of mind have come into being that have had a thousand repercussions, first and foremost of which the creation of a new ideal of beauty... We have lost the sense of the monumental, of the heavy, of the static; we have enriched out sensibility by a 'taste for the light, the practical,'...We feel we are no longer the men of the cathedrals, the palaces, the assembly halls; but of big hotels, railway stations, immense roads, colossal ports, covered markets..." - Marinetti and Cinti
Due to the Industralization and the multiple innovative techniques, construction has become easier, faster, and more approachable. Hence, many architects - both of other Centuries and modern ones- have started designing concrete, iron and glass buildings, which are trascending, modern and outstanding.
Leonardo Glass Cube in Bad Driburg, Germany designed by 3Deluxe.
These buildings are implemented in the same city where old buildings have been standing for decades now, and for many poeple, this is a topic of debate. This issue has been looked at from many angles; one should survive, the other should be eradicated, or there has to exist some sort of coexistance between the two. Each architect has his/her opinion.
Some people consider that there is no need for old buildings, that they should be replaced by new, more modernized buildings.
Futurists have quite a strong opinion on this matter.
(Flash by Pablo Llamazares)
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Others say old buildings reflect the history of each city, and to destroy them means to damage everything that our ancestors tried to preserve for us.
The text “Modern Superpositions. The Dilemma of “Building on the Built”” Francisco de Gracia states the three different views on this issue.
The first one would be to keep it traditional. As in the new architecture continuing the role of classical construction.
The second one is opposed to the first. Modern buildings should shadow historical ones.
Last but not least, he explains the architecture in which the new is engulfed by the old, but still visible and present.
COEXIST
What if there was a cohesion of both, what if both architectures could coexist without bullying one another?
This point reinforces, the third 'rule' by Francisco de Garcia. If both styles of architecture could be thoroughly though out, an agreement could be reached. There still would be contemporary buildings as well as modern designs. Harmony in architecture could be accomplished.
Now a days one of the most trending concepts is not building according to old or new, but towards comfortable, reasonable, stylistic designs.
For this reason many architects are applying this technique where they try to improve the
conditions and the appearance but without exuberantly making it stand out. They find the
healthy balance between modernity and antiquity.
An example for this would be : Haus im Haus - Renovation of Hamburg's Historic Chamber of Commerce.
Benisch Architecten won 1st prize in an architecture competition to design a renovation for the historic Handelskamer, which serves as Hamburg's Chamber of Commerce.
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