Regenerar a cidade esquecida: o exemplo de intervenção no Bairro do Lagarteiro

Abstract

Choosing Lagarteiro neighborhood as a study case of this master degree dissertation follows the exercise developed in Projecto 5, in the year of 2013/2014, that aims to create a intervention proposal to all the area from Azevedo to Areias, with a special attention to that same neighborhood and all the problems it represents. This context where Lagarteiro neighborhood finds itself as well as its poor relation with the city motivates this choice. In order to realise how the urban and architectural intervention may change this paradigm that defines Lagarteiro neighborhood a analysis towards three parts will be developed. The first part is to understand how this habitational type, a post-world war inheritance, as the problems they originate that directly reflect in the urban as social context. The loss of social side of the public space is the main teaser for, in a second part, to rase the question about how drawing (design) and architectural project can give back the public space to the contemporary city, specially regarding challenges and methodologies that the architect has to deal. In that way, will be approach some intervention references, in the urban domain point of view, with the purpose to clarify the intervention process as well as the huge importance has a social regenerator, as a cohesion and integrational element in the urban context. The third part is dedicated to the study case's analysis in sight of the approached references, and the guidelines they give. A focus to the needs and fragilities of the site, as the interventions that occured since the Lagarteiro construction, will work as basis to find key points that may potentiate a new urban dynamic and framework hold by the body spine that the public space can representate.