A Casa Burguesa na contemporaneidade: um projecto de reabilitação na Foz do Douro

Abstract

This dissertation is titled A Casa Burguesa na Contemporaneidade: Um Projeto de Reabilitação na Foz do Douro it aims to be an projetual record of an intervention on a bourgeoi residence in Foz do Douro, where the influences of the designer can be felt along with its academic path with Escola do Porto: the reasons for practice and convictions. Revealing a peculiar perspective, on the act of designing that influences both the architecture studend and the final project. For the goal to be reached, its necessary to research on the history of the city, Foz and the bourgeoi house as well as the methods and processes to rehabilitate it. It's from the sinthetization of this knowledge that notes are gathered, problems revealed and solutions found, all of them pilling on and contributing for the final design. This one is completed after an iteractive process that tests the intemporality and flexibility of the elements that make the urban fabric of Porto a whole as well as it's adaptability to contemporaneity and new life styles, without compromising the cultural, property, identity and historical values.