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The topic of my thesis written within the framework of the Postgraduate Course in Historic Building Conservation organised by the Transylvania Trust Foundation and the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca was the Aita Mare Communal Hall, in a village situated in the Baraolt Region, a historical region of Transylvania called in Hungarian Erdővidék. The thesis presented the evolution history of the building and of its environment; I included a detailed description of the present situation, and following an inventory of the identified values and formulated demands, I elaborated three intervention suggestions of different levels: preservation, complete conservation and enlargement. The present study is a summary of my thesis.
Keywords: conservation, Communal Hall, multifunctionality, changes in form and function, eclecticism, neoclassical elements, symmetry, value inventory, preventive historic building conservation, preservation, enlargement