Por uma arquitectura integrada - Projecto de habitação unifamiliar nos antigos Coutos de Alcobaça

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on the themes of Integrated Architecture and Sustainability, and develops, starting with the analysis and context (presented in Chapter 01), of the three premises that are going to influence the thought for the development of the project (presented in Chapter 02). The three premises involve the study as well as the practical application of a Self-Sufficient Program in an integrated space planning, the Space and Form capable of being transformed through the Flexibility and the Evolutionary Architecture, and the Economy of Means that one wants to present in thought, in the previous premises as well as in the choice of materials and their reuse. The method of work has always been the continuous correspondence between the study and analysis and practical application of all the themes in the project, and in its written presentation is chosen to expose the theoretical themes first and only then expose the project, for greater coherence. With this work, it is intended, in addition to deepening the Knowledge of the themes previously showed, to interconnect them whenever possible, showing the exercise of Architecture as a whole, as well as to emphasize the important role of the Architect and his choices, always in an integrated vision, according to the three points of sustainable development: society, economy and ecology.