Perspectives for a Historic Urban Landscapes Approach in Porto, Portugal

Mani-Polis-Acção: as mãos activas da cidade

Considering the context of full re-emergence of the cities as strategicplaces since the middle of the twentieth century, it is assumed that the city,more than a centre of development, is essentially a place for experimentation and transformation. Its existence is therefore determined by an irreversible process in which it is inevitably subject to a series of mutations, stages and experiments.Each transformation undergone implies a special sequence of social,economic and environmental conseque...

Projecto, património arquitectónico e regulamentação contemporânea. Sobre práticas de reabilitação no edificado corrente

The present thesis is an approach to the uncommon reflection about project, architectural heritage and contemporary regulation. The analysis focuses on cases where intervention was operated on common buildings of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, constructions with heritage value. In all cases, intervention is explicit (from restoration to more profound rehabilitation) and the preservation of identifiable architectural values is a concern. Simultaneously, all cases ...

Um Processo de Revitalização Urbana na Frente de Água - A frente ribeirinha do Ouro, como um elo de integração urbana do bairro do Aleixo

This dissertation intends to understand the urban project as an instrument between the various areas that act on the territory, socially, economically, spatially and ecologically, creating a coherent structure that promotes and enriches the environment for which it is designated, making -through the act of drawing. It presupposes the urban revitalization of public space, taking advantage of the value of the water front, as a strategic tool that will contribute to the sustainable development o...