Teatro Jordão - Rehabilitation of the Old Jordão Theater Building and Garage Avenida

Teatro Jordão, – this is how the well-known building that during its lifetime also housed the “Restaurante Jordão” (Restaurant) on the lower floor, was built in the 30s and corresponds programmatically to the typical Cine-teatros (Cinema Theatre) program, of which there are many and varied examples throughout the country, making it possible for the traveling companies that existed at the time to perform plays, providing above all the space for cinema, introducing one of the items of “modernity” in very incipient urban contexts.

Thus, in this building, its explicit function is associated with another content, of a symbolic character that has acquired and maintained primordial importance. The memory of the building materializes in this dichotomy between the functionality of the building and its associated values. Its function was lost over time – the cinema was deactivated and the restaurant was closed – and the construction degraded, but the volume and modernity image translated in the façades facing Avenida D. Afonso Henriques constitute today the only objective memory of the whole set. This memory, a granite and opaque construction, should remain as the project’s third reference, formally and volumetrically making all the elements that constitute new intervention autonomous. This physical and real memory understood as heritage to be preserved should remain so.

Jordão劇院 - 修復舊Jordão劇院大樓和車庫大道

這棟著名的建築為——Jordão劇院，得名於在它過去的歷史中，曾經在這棟建築物底層的Jordão餐廳。這座建築建於上世紀1930年，其功能對應典型的電影戲院（Cinema Theatre）規劃，這在全國各地皆有許多不同的例子。當時有許多巡迴劇團，在這座劇院的場地上演出，特別是提供了電影播放的場所，引入當時都市環境中「現代化」的元素之一，儘管這樣的元素在當時仍處於起步階段。

然而，這棟建築不僅僅是功能明確，更具有更深層的意義，它象徵著歷史和文化的重要性。建築物所承載的記憶，在其功能性和相關價值之間形成一種對立，這種對立關係在建築物的演化過程中得以體現。隨著時間的推移，建築物原有的功能逐漸消失，電影院停用、餐廳關閉，包含建築物本身也逐漸衰退，但面向D. Afonso Henriques大道立面所展現的體量和現代形象，如今成為整個建築群唯一客觀的記憶。這個記憶，它是不透明的結構由花崗岩建造而成。因此，應將其視為該項目重要的參考指標，從形式和體積上進行新的設計元素形成獨特的自主性。該建築物的記憶是文化遺產的價值，必須尊重且應該被保留下來。

The preservation of heritage is connected to a criterion of utility understood here in its broadest sense, accepting that the functional conversion of the building implies its transformation. In addition, the program also includes the rehabilitation of the “Auto Garagem Avenida” building, from the same time, and which translates into its main façade, one of the best examples of an Art Deco aesthetic built in Guimarães. The proposed new program, School of Performing Arts, School of Visual Arts, School of Music and Auditorium resulting from the reconversion of the Teatro Jordão room, divided by several autonomous entities with similar but independent activities, was decisive for the new drawing of the building.

遺產的保護與效益標準息息相關，以最廣泛的意義來定義，接受建築的功能轉換也就意味著轉型。此外，該項目還包括同一時期的「Auto Garagem Avenida」建築物的修復，該建物在外立面上展現了基馬拉斯（Guimarães）這個地區最出色的裝飾藝術之建築美學的最佳典範，基馬拉斯的市中心歷史悠久並保存良好，被聯合國教科文組織列為世界遺產。

Before

After

The autonomous and independent Auditorium functionally complements the major valences, music school, the performing arts school and the visual arts school, ensuring the independent operation that can host external and diverse activities. The auditorium (intended for dance, music and congresses, etc.) was designed as a multifunctional room, allowing its reconfiguration and adaptation to the various proposed events. Any understanding of the heritage of these buildings, this site and this city carries an interpretative, personal and subjective burden. Likewise, a heritage recovery and safeguard policy, even validated by consistent and continuous practice, means an option that must be constantly compared by the context of each intervention.

自主且獨立的禮堂，在功能上與主要的價值互補，包括音樂學校、表演藝術學校和視覺藝術學校，確保能獨立運作的能力，可以舉辦外部和多元化的活動。這個禮堂（用於舞蹈、音樂和會議這個提案的新計劃是將Jordão劇院的場地改建為表演藝術學校、視覺藝術學校、音樂學校和禮堂，由幾個相似但獨立的機構分開經營相應的活動，這對於建築物的新設計具有關鍵性的影響。等）將其設計為一個多功能的空間，能夠重新配置和進行各種提案中的活動。對於這些建築物、這個場所和城市的遺產，承載著詮釋性和主觀的負擔。同樣地，遺產的恢復和保護政策，不僅需要考慮周全且需持續實踐驗證，這說明必須實際操作不斷的比較和選擇，確保最適合的方法和策略。

The ultimate goal of the project is the preservation of a heritage, and intends to place it within the scope of rehabilitation and conversion, not with a logic of integral preservation of the physical and architectural reality of the Teatro Jordão and the Auto Garagem Avenida buildings, but rather considers its transformation as inevitable, allocating to the building a program unequivocally and conceptually connected to that adopted for the Couros Area. And when discussing rehabilitation and conversion, we talk about repairing and renewing in the first case and transforming in the second.

該計劃的最終目標是保護文化遺產，並打算將其納入修復和改建的範圍內，並非僅僅完整的保存Jordão劇院與Auto Garagem Avenida建築物的穩固狀態和修復。因此，將其轉型是不可避免的，並且建築物的功能和設計與Couros區域的計劃相連接。當談論到復修和改建時，這是兩個不同的概念，其中修復和更新是現有狀態，而轉型則是根本性的轉變。

Design Studio | Pitagoras Group

Photography | José Campos•João Rey•Manuel Roque•Alexandre Coelho Lima