“不要去打扰那些神圣的事物。早听人说过这句话，事实也确实如此。” “You don’t mess… with what’s SACRED. I’ve heard it said, and it’s true.”

在我第一次走进波尔图大教堂时，我所经过的正门被掩盖在修缮工程之下。在感受了中殿黑白分明的光影之后，我穿过回廊，参观了小礼拜堂，最后进入了圣器收藏室：宏伟的建筑、拱廊、模糊的壁画、光线，以及有些格格不入的红地毯。然后我听到一个令人害怕的声音：“你打算对我做什么？”

When the cleric of the Cathedral called me in, I entered through the main door, which was camouflaged by refurbishment work. I took in the darkness and the light of the Nave, passed on to the Cloister, visited the Chapels, and entered the Sacristy: the grandiosity, the arcades, the faint frescoes, the light. The unnecessary red carpet. Then, a fearful: what do you want from me?

▼项目概览，preview © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

我们走进了一个完全不同的世界，在我看来，它就像是一个劣质而破败的乡村。这个世界存在于一系列体量之间：教堂、圣器室、旋涡巷、Guerra Junqueiro 博物馆以及唱诗班建筑。从这里可以明显地看出曾经由新政府连续实施的多次重建和翻新工程的痕迹——时间在 1927 年-1939 年之间。

▼总平面图，general plan©Carlos Castanheira & Clara Bastai

A door was opened and without leaving the cathedral we moved on to a different world. A world that appeared to me to be rural, but a poor quality rural, decrepit. In between the volumes of the Church, the Sacristy, the Beco dos Redemoinhos, the Guerra Junqueiro Museum and the Choir building, there is another world. A world of various buildings, of successive reconstructions and the conspicuous presence of the refurbishment works carried out by the department of National Buildings and Monuments, begun by the Estado Novo in 1927 and concluded in 1939.

▼波尔图大教堂鸟瞰，Cathedral of Porto, aerial view© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

▼建筑原状，the existing building