SEAD: estudo de caso de uma edificação de linguagem modernista em Belém do Pará

In the current context, there are various discussions regarding the architectural collection of the beginning of the twenty century. In the case of Belém, some of them, which sometimes are unnoticed by the eyes of the population, have been classified as proto-modern and modern. Nowadays, they are the object of architectural destructive intervention, a fact which shows the incipient treatment of preservation issues related to architectural heritage. Both the academy and the public organizations, which are responsible for the preservation of the historic patrimony of the city, have had concerns about those constructions. Recently, the Fundação Cultural do Municipio de Belem (FUMBEL) through the Departamento de Patrimônio Histórico (DEPH) together with “Restauração de Bens Culturais e Imoveis”, subject of the architecture and town planning course of the Universidade Federal do Pará, carried out a historic survey of those properties with preservation needs. The contact with those collections gave the students a critical view pointing to need for actions for the safeguard of history through the preservation of those constructions. Considering that in some cases it was noticed that large part of this patrimony have been almost lost. This article, via a case study, aims to analyse the adaptation of space and loss of the architectural patrimony, starting from the attribution of a new use of construction, involving a discussion of this attribution. The object of study was one of the collections planned between the 50’s and the 70’s by engineer and architect Camillo Porto de Oliveira. He was responsible for most of the architectural modern style collection in the city of Belem. The property was originally executed to be a family home. At the present time, it shelters one of the unities of the Secretaria de Administracao do Estado (SEAD).