Largo da Estação: Uma Simbiose de Temporalidades. O Sistema de Espaços Colectivos no Tecido Urbano da Vila de Monção

Abstract

The fragmented and discontinuous condition that marks the image of the contemporary city represents a main "paradigm" of various disciplines underlying the organization of this "social ecosystem", from architecture to urban planning, through the anthropological domain that "challenges" its current state. Materialized in a public space mangled and a reluctant urban landscape, the contemporary context demands the perfect symbiosis between the "theoretical discourse and practice of public space design as a key component in structuring the city". By studying the collective spaces system in the urban texture of the Monção village what we want is more than identify the weaknesses of an urban texture, aware that the city, "living organism" which interact with multiple physical and cognitive dimensions define a social standard, should be planned, learned and contemplated as a single unit (homogeneous texture) and not as a result of the joint and the juxtaposition of parts and isolated concepts. At the same time, we seek to "feed" the nuclear condition of public space in the composition of the city, pointing out the different areas that identify it beyond the materiality captured by the sense organs, "the place of relationship and identification, of contact between people, of urban animation, and sometimes community expression ". We emphasize, as well, the inseparable relationship of both themes (city and public space), a research that seeks to elucidate, from the intervention the "contemporary heritage", the need to (re) think the models and intervention strategies city. In these circunstances, the Largo da Estação, part of the collective system of spaces in the urban texture of the Monção village, matches the empirical space of reflection (case study). Of particular position in the village plot, the place of transition between the confined space inside the fortress to the north, and contemporary urbanization, south, it shows the profile of a nuclear atmosphere in the urban continuity premised between the forms that organize around it. In this sense, we use the Urban Project as a tool to materialize an urban strategy in response to the "obstacles" and opportunities that the disappearance of the way of the railroad sparked through a design where "things are and harmonize". In short, this thesis questions the concept and the image of the contemporary city through the reading of a past perpetuated in the present forms and debate the nature of public space as a "key element of the shape of the city".