Entre o singular e o coletivo: Projeto de um Lar de Idosos em Penamaior, Paços de Ferreira

Abstract

This dissertation, entitled Between the singular and the collective: Project of a Nursing Home in Penamaior, Paços de Ferreira, comes from a desire to expose the project exercise, reflecting on the themes that provoke it, that direct it and that conditions it. The project of a nursing home emerges as a theme of interest to be studied due to its size, technical and safety requirements and plurality of spaces. Its a place where public spaces are articulated with private spaces - housing, social area and health care area cohabit in the same building - the spaces are interconnected and, at the same time, fragmented by presenting different levels of intimacy. The work seeks to focus on the happiness, comfort and safety of the proposed project users. It has as purpose to be their home, the place where they should feel in harmony and call theirs. However, it will be a collective building whose use and users will vary on a regular basis. So, starting from these issues, the research tries to meet a concern for questions of spatiality, as well as understanding of the possible users' daily life. Thus, it is intended that the study focus, essentially, on themes that seek to address the user's individual interest, both in their privacy and in the social environment, naturally, influencing the thought process throughout the development of the architectural proposal.