Tracking New Paths for the Preservation of The Railway Heritage: Adaptive Reuse for São Félix (BA) Railway Station.
Railway station. São Félix. Restoration. Reuse
Since the beginning of its settlement, one of the reasons that contributed to the urban development of São Félix was its geographical location. Located in the Recôncavo Baiano region, on the bank of the Paraguaçu River and close to Iguape Bay, the city is in a middle of a road junction, present since the colonial period. Initially this area was appointed as a tropeiros terminal, later the region became a transshipment point between land and river routes, enabling the connection between Salvador and the sertões through steam navigation, as it is the last navigable area of the Paraguaçu River, and finally , consolidated in the 19th century as an industrial city marked by the tobacco industry and as an important commercial center with the arrival of the railroad and construction of the Rail Yard of the Central Railroad of Bahia. With the decline of the tobacco industry and the Federal Government's prioritization of road transport and mobility, São Félix witnesses, at the end of the 20th century, a process of the degradation of heritage, culminating in such transformations that compromise the reading of the railway complex of São Félix and the comprehension of the site. Currently, despite the advanced state of degradation, the São Félix Railway Station is one of the few buildings in the courtyard that is preserved. With the main objective of preventing its disappearance, the present work presents an intervention proposal for the station, based on the methodological process of restoration: to know, diagnose and intervene, converting it into a pavilion of laboratories aimed at the University's cinema course. Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia