Niektóre problemy funkcjonalnego i konserwatorskiego programowania zabytkowych zespołów staromiejskich

The problem of conservation and preservation of the old town complexes in urban areas has grown to a subject o f several discussions. An unquestionable need exists to develop more vigorous conservator’s activities in this field and thus the article represents an attempt to define in a possibly precise way the methodical conditions as w e ll as proposals concerning the organization of conservator’s activities with the aim to solve this problem. The methodical proposals take into account the e x isting system and the practice adopted in general town planning, at the same time suggesting to include those responsible for conservation into works aimed at achieving the town planning decisions already at the stage at which the programme outlines for urban plans are being prepared. It follows from the fact that both the functional and conservation programmes, if purposefully defined, w ill in consequence allow the right management and exposure o f an old town complex within the urban area and equally to achieve the due functional interwaeving of the whole town. The defining of a „general function”, an assessment of the absorbability of a complex as w e ll as the many- sided, careful analysis of historical, artistic and educational values possessed by the whole complex and its separate buildings w ill enable the due course of preparing the conservator’s programmatic requirements. From the above a proposal follows to work out the conservator’s requirements within the three stages named below: 1) general studies, including the completing of inventory and historical source materials as well as on-the- spot research, programme outlines for the whole town and careful analysis of materials presented, 2) preliminary programming with selection of general function, assessment of absorbability and defining the basic conservator’s requirements, and 3) proper programming with the final completing and precise formulation of conservator’s requirements, at the same time giving the outlines for town planning decisions w ith in the old town complex as well as for those with concern to its environment. To have the postulated tasks resolved an adequate organizational framework should be created. There is a number of possible solutions of the problem the most right o f them seeming to be a proposal to create the design-and-conservator workteams acting at the level of Culture Departments within the structure o f National Councils as the local government agencies concerned. As to their knowledge activities the above workteams could be subordinated to the Consulting Team acting at the lev e l of the Board o f Museums and Historical Monuments Preservation. The pertinence of principles presented in the article can be practically teeted by their confronting with realities.