Identidade e arquitectura de memória - um projecto de reabilitação

This dissertation aims to analyse a house in the historic centre of Guimarães, based on the theme of building rehabilitation. Through this project we also studied at the relationship between the past and the present, raising questions about the constraints underlying historic patrimony interventions.This theoretical investigation and analysis are complementary to the creative process, as this the casa study motivates the reflection about intervention problems in the heritage. Thus, it is impe...

A AUTOCONSTRUÇÃO EM MEIO RURAL NOS ANOS 70 E 80 - Projeto de Reabilitação da CASA DE REBORDINHO

The theme of rehabilitation of the built heritage has been increasingly debated, currently, within the scope of Architecture. From a perspective of sustainability, it becomes imperative to take advantage of the existing building that, at the outset, has no architectural or historical value, but which may become of patrimonial and cultural interest for a community. Reflecting on its rehabilitation reveals an exercise of Good Practices in this type of building.In this sense, this dissertation e...

Arquitetura D.I.Y. e urbanismo tático: uma abordagem leve na transformação da cidade

As it is explained in the beginning of the book "Tactical Urbanism"1 tacticalmeans:"of relating to small-scale actions serving a larger purpose"A kind of urbanism that look for solutions of problems with small interventions.In the same direction the practice of DIY Architecture tries to improve thechange of behavior of the people in a place, with projects that are oftensmall and temporaries.These two approaches's fieldwork is the public space of cities, and aredeveloped with the help of the i...

Porta Nova da Alhambra: Das razões profundas do projecto no tempo longo do processo de criação arquitectónica

In scope of the International Competition of ideas for the Atrium of Alhambra, organized in between2010 and 2011 by the Council of the Alhambra and the Generalife, Álvaro Siza and Juan DomingoSantos developed a project named New Gate. The project and the creative process correspond tothe study object and to the subject of our PhD final thesis. The choice of the case followed theintuition that a project thought for a place like the Alhambra of Granada, palatine cityabsolutely dense of referenc...