Projecto do Lagar de Azeite e agro-turismo na Quinta dos Poços: reflexão, programa integrado e operacionalização de estruturas rurais

Abstract

The dissertation came from a personal intention, related with the development about a critical reflexion about the built elements that sustain the cultural landscape of the Douro. Focused on the olive oil sector, because it is an industry in the process of growth and affirmation, resulted in a self proposal of a project of an olive mill, with a real client and with it's own context. The self proposal evolved to an order of a project of an olive oil mill with complementary tourist spaces, in a private property, located in Douro, Unesco TChuelt ucroanl sHtreurcittaiogne .of the program was crucial to the development of the project, and consisted in a sinthesis of an investigation that interconnects several aspects. The context of the project favored the integration of the functional program in pre-existing spaces, fitting in a requalification strategy of the vacant space property, that originated the reflection about the intervention on the built structures. The investigation ends with a project proposal that intends to operationalize old rural structures.