Reabilitar para a cidade: o Cine-Teatro de Vale Formoso

The study for the rehabilitation of Cine-Teatro de Vale Formoso was thefundamental goal for the elaboration of the present dissertation. Thinking about Cine-Teatro de Vale Formoso allowed us to reflect on the city of Porto and its active andabandoned buildings, that are framed in a cultural structure, composed of parts andelements that integrate an urban, social and historical unity.From the equation on the relationship between the city and the Cine-Teatro, asearch was made on the reasons tha...

Reconversão da Quinta da Senhora do Monte em Estrutura Residencial para Seniores

The present dissertation takes advantage of the opportunity, in an academic context, to approach a real situation for a concrete client, with the objective of developing a project for a residential structure for seniors in Quinta da Senhora do Monte located in the parish of Pedroso and Seixezelo, belonging to the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia.The work is structured in four chapters that combine a set of references, readings, attempts, approximations and retreats, as well as situations and...

Olhar crítico sobre a história do centro pastoral da igreja de Cedofeita - Da concepção à concretização

The motivation of this dissertation started from a will to put my academic education in favor of Cedofeita's community, in the shape of a small contribute to deepen and spread parish history, in what concerns to architecture discipline. The vicar change, in 2015, after 46 years of service to that community, initiated a personal reflection about the identity of pastoral center of Cedofeita's church, for which we identified as necessary and urgent to reflect about the change and the permanent c...

Plataforma Digital de Arquitectura: O repensar da tradição e promoção da arquitectura através do uso das novas tecnologias

The present theoretical-practical research explores the possibility of approaching architecture, constructionand the public through the use of new digital technologies in representation and communication.The reflection of the methods of representation and communication of these threeareas of study represent the cause of the construction of a digital platform that aspires to be theunion of these three realities and that will be reflected in the structure of this same dissertation.This disserta...