A Necessidade de um refúgio: Transformação da casa de Aldarete

This dissertation focuses on Antón Capitel, one of the "most interesting and complex architectural composition themes" - Rehabilitation. This theme's inherent difficulty is associated with searching for a coherent and balanced solution between apparently paradoxical concepts: permanence and transformation, tradition and innovation, past and present, valuing pre-existence and the need to adapt to contemporary demands. The policy of conserving human evolution's testimonies has been changing ov...

Reabilitação de um edifício em Vila do Conde. Processo de reabitar em vertentes multidisciplinares

This dissertation is motivated by the perspective of rehabilitation of a residential building located in the historic center of the city of Vila do Conde, whose theoretical foundation is based on the intersection of different disciplines that are articulated with Architecture in the way of studying the house and inhabiting it. It is considered pertinent to understand the concrete needs of everyday life, rich in the plurality of personal, social, cultural and family stimuli that it has from th...

Para a transformação de uma casa em Recarei: Apontamentos, Experiência e Reflexões

Based on a duality between the permanence of what is written and printed, and the fragility of becoming quickly outdated (-fortunatly!), this dissertation is a gesture of tenderness about an elegy that itself should not have to be. Morphologically, the research begins with a moment of personal reconnaissance of the place where one invests in the differentiation of distinct scales which only the movement through spaces can enable, and thus it creates the journey that allows the real approach t...

Atlas errante

All of us appear to be guided by magical digits of a watch, but few are the ones that know the direction of a compass. Backbone of human existence, time seems to domesticate all our movements, taking us too many times to despise the most beautiful of questions: what place do we take in this sphere we have agreed to call the world? Geographical synapsis of past and future memories, the present dissertation collects the fragments of a travel log in South American lands, that makes use of archit...