Preservação de ruínas: um estudo de caso sobre o memorial da Fábrica Martins & Irmãos em São Luís, MA

Abstract

In 2012 year, as part as a mitigate and compensatory action aimed at receive an environmental license for one more commercial venture, the Mateus Group implemented a project to stabilize three old houses ruins from the old Santiago square. Despite of stabilized ruins and safeguarded heritage, these ruins are disconnected of the urban context, that means, without any relation on the road network, architectural aesthetics and unrelated with the landscaping around the Memorial. Therefore, this research aims to analyze if the implemented intervention have really involved these archaeological site on the São Luis population routine, in order to reference and remarkable for the population. For this, we proceeded to a bibliographical survey of the main theorists of the Restoration and their interventional postures, the field research and the specific documentary analysis of the Ruins in question. As a result of this analysis, it was possible to verify that the ruins of the Martins & Irmãos memorial seem to be once again delivered to fragmentation, disruption and, therefore, the adoption of new strategic conservation measures.