(Re)Habitat. A reintegração da habitação na cidade consolidada. Berlim (1957,1984) Porto (1956,1974)

Abstract

The present thesis consists in a comparative study over the mutation/transformation of the attitudes and thoughts about the city, featuring paradigms' evolution of throughout the twentieth century. It's a period marked by modernist and post modernist influences, which come to reflect in the practiced urban policies and in the understanding of dwelling in its relation with the city. Therefore, and taking the cities of Porto and Berlin as example, several approaches are put in confrontation, characterizing intervention practices in a national and international context. By this mean, two paradigmatic cases are exposed which, despite having different contexts, share the same problem of the city, in response to a common origin: the crisis and dwelling emergency. Within this theme, the pratical cases of the Interbau of Hansaviertel, BERLIM (1957) and Plano de Melhoramentos at PORTO (1956-1966) are approached, in contrast to the Operações S.A.A.L./Norte, PORTO (1974-1976) and the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) of BERLIM in the 80's, in a critical perspective to the model of modernist city as well as representing an attempt to overcome the simplistic of the Modern's Functionalism. Thus, it is intended to encourage a reflection on the projectual method in the context of consolidated city considering the form of dwelling in the city, as an integral and generating part of it.