El monumento como un todo.El plan director de restauración

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present the problems that poses in the restoration works the study of historical architecture following the mechanistic paradigm and causal that understands its structure as a stable and closed system, with a linear and predictable behaviour, that is imagined immutable, timeless and reversible; we propose, in contradistinction, to undertake its study together with its users and the natural and social environment in which it is immersed, as an open, complex and dynamic system, with a non linear and holistic behaviour of the elements and parts that make it up in continuous interaction, transformation and evolution of its configuration and construction and definitely, unstable and irreversible. Some of these ideas were elaborated during the redaction and execution of the restoration master plan of the Santa Maria Cathedral of Vitoria-Gasteiz, from which the images that illustrate this article have been taken.