One market and one factory at Salvador Bahia Brasil Ceila Cardoso Modelo Market under construction, covered with an eclectic skin and burning on fire. Source: AZEVEDO, P. A Alfandega e o Mercado, Memoria e restauracao, 1985.The tissues factory Emporium Industrial do Norte (1892) and the Modelo Market (1911), at the ancient downtown, in Salvador, weretwo buildings with a metallic structure covered with an eclectic skin surface.The principle of internal spaces flexibility,at the market and at the factory, were possible by the use of metal as abuilding material, indispensable at planning these free spaces of rhythmicalpillars and zenithal lighting roofs. Its appearances were very different fromoutside.At the end of nineteenth and beginning of thetwentieth century, the iron's pre-fabricated architecture was brought to Bahia.Even with this innovative action, the architecture of engineering wasunderstood by the academics and local population much more as an industrysproduct than properly architecture.It used to be entrusted to the architects, atthis time, to draw the building's ornamented main facade as if it was a skinabove the bones... The solid and ornamented dense facades, apart from function,should cover the skeletal and transparent interiors.At Salvador, as elsewhere, there was resistanceto the use of metal at the architecture, and, the technologic buildings on ironwere qualified as something awful, aesthetically poor and inelegant. Successive fires put down the building of themarket and, even today, the innovative architecture of the Emporium has beengradually demolished to make room for speculative possibilities. Unfortunately,these wonderful pre-fabricated architectures in metal will not remain for thefuture generations to see, understand and enjoy it's magnitude.The Salvadors Industrial heritage, with thesebuildings and many others industrial buildings of the nineteenth century, willnot anymore be lived in locun as apart of the complete city in time, or even as an isolated esthetic experience. Theyare at serious risk to no longer exist in a very short time.Emporio Industrial do Norte - the fabric, its interiors, facade and aerial view. Source: UEFS - Fundacao Pamponet Sampaio, 2002._____________________________________________________________________________2 arquiteturas peles +ossosa Emporio e o MercadoA fabrica de tecidos Emporio Industrial do Norte (1892) e oMercado Modelo (1911), na cidade-baixa, em Salvador, abrilhantavam a cidadecomo exemplares de edificios em estrutura metalica coberta com uma superficiede pele ecletica.O principio da flexibilidade espacial, tanto no mercado,quanto na fabrica, foram possiveis pelo uso do metal como material construtivo,indispensavel no planejamento estes espacos livres ritmados por pilares e comcoberturas com iluminacao zenital. As suas aparencias eram bem diferentesquando vistas do lado de fora.No final do seculo XIX e inicio do vinte a arquiteturapre-fabricada em metal foi trazida para a Bahia. Mesmo com essa inovacao, aarquitetura dos engenheiros foi entendida pelos academicos e pela populacaolocal muito mais como um produto industrial do que propriamente comoarquitetura.Era de praxe, a esta epoca, ser confiado aos arquitetos quedesenhassem uma fachada ornamentada para os edificios, como fosse uma pelesobre os ossos. As solidas, ornamentadas e densas fachadas, a parte a funcao,deveriam cobrir os esqueleticos e transparentes interiores.Em Salvador, como em outras partes, houve resistencia ao usodo metal na arquitetura, e os tecnologicos edificios em ferro foramqualificados de feios, esteticamente pobres e deselegantes.Incendios sucessivos destruiram oMercado e, nos