Jogar para projetar, habitar jogando

As adults, we often feel a nostalgic longing to recapture the primal spontaneity of dreaming, experimenting, playing, and having fun. How can spaces be designed in a way that can reclaim this fantasy seemingly lost in childhood and where the user is not necessarily a child but can still play? This exploration does not aim to intersect architecture with childhood in order to return to it, but rather to propose its use as a theme for exploring an essential connection with the creative process. ...

"Arquiteturas Fílmicas". A arquitetura como personagem em Mal Viver e Viver Mal

This dissertation explores the relationship between architecture and cinema through the notion of architecture as a character in the films Bad Living and Living Bad, by João Canijo, shot at the Hotel Parque do Rio in Ofir. This work proposes a reading of the building beyond its condition as a mere background, understanding it as an active presence that functions as a character in the construction of the cinematic narratives. The research examines how architecture contributes to the development...

Navegando Entre Eixos: Desafios e oportunidades da Via B na estruturação urbana da Póvoa do Varzim

This dissertation falls within the scope of the study of urban transformations in the city of Póvoa de Varzim and the relationship between territorial growth, mobility, and contemporary urban structure. Based on the analysis of the city's historical evolution and the consolidation of its main structuring axes, the study seeks to understand how Via B, a recently implemented infrastructure located between the EN13 and the A28, contributed to processes of urban expansion, territorial fragmentati...

Os Valores Culturais e Ecológicos de Património Molinológico de Lousada. Contributo entre rotas para a coesão territorial

This dissertation proposes the Molinological Route of Lousada (RML) as an instrument of territorial and cultural cohesion, grounded in the concept of Dual Valuation - Cultural and Ecological - of the mill heritage of the municipality of Lousada, within the Tâmega e Sousa region. The research departs from a contradiction observable in the territory: while the Romanesque Route stands as a consolidated international heritage network, the more than 240 hydraulic mills inventoried by the MUNHOS Pr...