Entre o Rio e a Cidade: Broomielaw Dance Centre

Abstract

The present work explains and deepens the design process for the project of a Dance Centre, designed during the second semester of exchange in Glasgow, in the Mackintosh School of Architecture. The result is a project that owes to the Faculty of Architecture of the Porto University and to the Glasgow School of Art teaching models, as well as to a critical attitude and personal research. It is intended to present the Broomielaw Dance Centre in the light of the design context, approaching not only the impact of the city and its everyday life, but also the quick response projects designed on the first semester, emphasizing the school didactics. The Dance Centre is an excuse to approach architectural themes that go beyond the function and the place, belonging to a set of personal doubts and beliefs.