Disparidades dos limites que compõem o espaço urbano. O limite da cidade vs o limite da casa no SAAL Boavista

Abstract

This thesis chooses, as an object of study, the urban tissue of an area of the city of Porto - the Boavista. This consolidated city sector, hides in its interior, social housing structures that are degraded and left abandoned. These structures, due to their social and economic context, have been marginalized from the rest of the city, by being enclosed in their own plot, decontextualized from the rest of the urban space. During the last decades, various strategies from the public sector have put plans in action in order to resolve this spatial segregation that, however, ultimately led to their progressive deformity and loss of identity. Nevertheless, there was a plan from the public sector applied to this specific area of the Boavista that proposed its restoration and reintegration in the city's urban tissue, which however, was never developed. Based on this unaccomplished project, a study is carried out regarding the understanding of its conditions, its background, and the various intervention scenarios that have occurred in these structures, in order to reflect its ability and viability of resolution according to the current scenario, still strongly characterized by the isolation and insalubrious conditions of these spaces. Therefore, there is an attempt to outline a regeneration proposal for to this area of the Boavista, learning from the past and analysing the present, questioning the integration of a project that has stopped in time.