The Sub-City: Architectural Conservation as a Series of Experiential Spaces Drawing in Historical Memory in Salvador De Bahia, Brazil

The sub-city is the underlying historical narrative of every city in the world. Specific to every city, the story is a struggle, an accomplishment, or a tragedy, and in all cases, is a series of events the city and its people underwent or performed that constitute the sub-city. Given the layers that modernity added to cities, it has become significant to peal some of those layers to preserve and conserve history. This paper proposes to translate the narrative of the sub-city, or the historical memory of Salvador De Bahia to user-space experiences via architectural conservation and intervention. The city of Salvador De Bahia in Brazil served as a case study and a demonstration of design methodologies that could be implemented in architecturally conserving abandoned or old sites in the city.