Intervention Proposal for Barnabé warehouse
Warehouse; Comércio district; lower town; remaking; harbor architecture
The Trapiche Barnabé, located in the Comércio's neighborhood in the Cidade Baixa in Salvador, Bahia, is one of the first trapiches, possessing documents that prove its existence since 1711, being one of the few examples of this port construction that survived all the transformations of Comércio's neighborhood. Through these trapiches the products destined to the export and import, for the local and regional supply. It was in these spaces that commercial transactions were carried out, and for a long time Salvador was considered the largest port in the Southern Hemisphere and the monumental trapiches, which together with the town of the Cidade Alta formed the frontispiece of the City of Salvador. The historical contextualization was sought the necessary understanding of the main transformations that occurred in the monument and its surroundings in its more than three centuries of existence until its current state, which is presented in a complex way, since the ruiu that reached the century has undergone a process of hygiene. Currently the object of study of this present work works as parking and during the weekends it is used as an area for events. What is sought through this intervention in Trapiche Barnabé, anchored in a theoretical framework, is to give dignity to this use as an area of events, understanding the different sectorizations that have historically been part of this complex.