Habitar a Utopia; O complexo da fábrica de cimentos de Maceira-Liz

Abstract

This paper proposes the analysis and understanding of the industrial and housing complex of the Cement factory Maceira-Liz, in the district of Leiria, inserted in the discipline of Architecture. To demonstrate its importance, we introduce the case study in the international context from its relationship with the utopian cities of the nineteenth century. We have studied the theoretical and practical foundations that originated from the knowledge of the national scene, the route of the founders and the place that hosted this complex. To understand the implications behind this initiative, we investigate how has behaved its deployment, which building types are present and how they can contextualize in the history of architecture. Successive plans that were made to the complex, in an attempt to show change and modernization, constituting answers to new needs in a time of shifts on the Portuguese society and architecture.