As Minas de São Pedro da Cova. Indústria. Arquitectura

The mining industry has its own rules and follows distinctive priorities regardingother industries. The settling of its premises does not depend on man's will and is directlyrelated to geology, preferring the proximity to the extraction site over other factorsconsidered important in other industries, such as good accessibility, topography anddistance from urban centres and habitation areas.Since they are located in a relatively inhabited location, the mines of São Pedro daCova are linked to a...

O desenho e o uso dos espaços intermédios em edifícios de habitação plurifamiliar. Casos de estudo no pós-guerra na Europa enquanto laboratório

This dissertation aims to analyze the relation established between the design and the use of intermediate spaces in the context of multi-family housing. From a set of representative examples of the post-war architecture in Europe (built between 1945 and 1970), the research will try to identify the potentials of intermediate spaces in the public and private contexts.Intermediate spaces establish both the relation between the street and a housing building's entrance (public domain), between the...

Alto Douro Vinhateiro - Património Mundial. Índices socioeconómicos: Balanço de uma Década

Continuidade, subversão e sobrevivência: o habitar como parte do processo de produção de arquitectura

As a moment that anticipates the professional activity, the present dissertation comes up as an oportunity to approach, study and to problematize relevant topics to the architect's accion, which didn't took place during the academic course.Starting from naive reflections about popular architecture, emerged the desire to work on the theme of appropriation, as a process of interaction between inhabitantdwelling, enhancer of transformation and continuity of architecture.From exercises of observa...