El análisis arqueológico como base de dos propuestas: El Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo (Granada) y el Patio del Crucero (Alcázar de Sevilla)

Abstract

Archaeological investigation applied to buildings proves helpful in many cases to unentangle aspects which are crucial to architecture but are often seen as immaterial: light, space...The relative importance of a proper knowledge of those immaterial entities for an architectural work and its conservation may differ upon the needs of the building itself. We will analyze two kinds of performance. One of them entails a physical intervention on a building with the goal of recovering its original structure and configuration through the disentanglement of successive interventions, by means of stratigraphic analysis both previous and simultaneous with the restoration process itself. In the other case, this recovery proves not feasible, not only because recovery of lost elements might be effectively impossible, but also because of the undisputed worth of other historical contributions that must be necessarily taken for granted. In this case, archaeological analysis has brought about a proposal of a virtual recreation of different historical phases that might make it possible not only to present our knowledge to non-specialized audiences in a better way, but also to consider specific aspects which are difficult to approach through the usual methods and which include the appraisal of perceptual aspects of space and form.