Docomomo Macau is inviting you to participate in the 5th Docomomo Macau Seminar: How to extend the Life of Buildings, with Sheridan Burke & Imon Sharif as our speakers, moderated by Ricky Leong. Opening Session starts at 17h45 on November 24 , presented by Docomomo Macau Heritage Assessement Task Force: Presentation of the Rainha D Leonor & Escola Portuguesa de Macau Assessement Reports.

“A good building is much more than a functional materialization. It contains the trinity that durability and beauty add to use. So what choices does it face when its function is unplugged or its durability comes into question?

As functional usage may change over time, well designed buildings are able to adapt to new types of use and prolong their usefulness when their durability surpasses the role of its original tenant.

After its useful life cycle, a building can be reborn with a new role, but for that to happen there must be a will to allow its adaptation to happen through proper assessments and partnerships with the relevant stakeholders. This adaptation process must be integrated in master plans that give them a new meaning and a reason to exist beyond its original intent, in which a critical process must be created to question its transformation, to assert such maintenance and the additional effort implicit in adapting the building to its new life.”