Unidade e Variedade, a casa-mãe do Monte da Defesa Velha

Abstract

The current dissertation aims to explore the concept of unity in confrontation with variety in Architecture. This pursuit is sustained by a project exercise in Monte da Defesa Velha, starting from its motherhouse. The understanding of that circumstance is based on two moments, the acknowledgement of the parts in relation with its whole and the reflection on the unity and the synthesis of the project. Therefore, it is an experimentation, a narrative that intends to satisfy its primary concern: how to organize a place from an Architecture idea?