Habitar o caminho

Abstract

The present dissertation begins with an experimental exercise of a house into a real circumstance. On the slope of the river Dão, in the town of Nelas that belongs to the city of Viseu, a region marked by the harshness of the granite and the climate, as well as the fertile soils that awaken a dense vegetation, a project exercise is proposed, boosted by a request made by my family, who asks for a holiday home in this site. The request to inhabit this place awakens doubts and concerns, which I try to soothe throughout this process with the help of drawing and a set of lesson-works with which my work shares some problems and empathies. Starting with the understanding of the site and the request itself, hypotheses are launched, searching for the construction of the problem and its solution. Critical reflection about the dwelling and the home spaces becomes indispensable. In this way, seeking to clarify this complex exercise, we resort to the enunciation of essential actions to inhabiting, based on which the design of the Home-Path will be guided - a fragmented house along the slope.