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Uma casa no Travasso: Método, Banalidade e Conflito
| Summary: | With the development of infrastructure and industrialization of Portuguese territory, we have been witnessing its urbanization, which has led to the formulation of new lifestyles as a result of a blending of two seemingly antagonistic environments - the urban, increasingly present, composed of a globally connected information society, and the rural, increasingly reduced, relating to the local community dedicated to the land and traditions - culminating in the creation of hybrid spaces in transformation. Faced with this changing reality, there is a difficulty in dealing with the disappearance of the rural world, which is also reflected in architecture that sometimes mimics the forms of a lost past, and sometimes, in a vanguard tone, denies its origins, creating spaces of conflict whose identity is fragmented, as is the case in many villages in this country. With the aim of guiding the project practice of a house in the village of Travasso - a former rural area undergoing urbanization - this research seeks to understand how to intervene in such a context in order to confer unity (and therefore harmony) both to the project and to the place. To that end, we seek to study a project method capable of reconciling these two realities - rural past and urban present - based on the concept of banality, which, as Álvaro Siza points out, it possesses continuity. By referring to the common, and thus to elements that remain constant over time and space, banality has the ability to traverse a wide range of realities, even the most opposing ones, contributing to their reconciliation. As the main reference for this study, we highlight the legacy of the Escola do Porto, which, under the concept of the terceira via, it also sought to reconcile the nostalgia of the past related to Portuguese rural and local tradition, with the modernity of the present, global and urban. The presentation of the project process is divided into three distinct phases: the first concerning to the exploration of the project's conditioning factors - Conhecer, the second regarding its research themes - Compreender, and the third relating to the evolution of the project's options - Conceber. At the beginning of each phase, an explanation of its relevance to the work method investigated is found in (and as) parentheses. |
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| Main Authors: | André Rodrigues Mendes |
| Subject: | Artes Arts |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | master thesis |
| Access type: | open access |
| Associated institution: | Universidade do Porto |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto |
| Summary: | With the development of infrastructure and industrialization of Portuguese territory, we have been witnessing its urbanization, which has led to the formulation of new lifestyles as a result of a blending of two seemingly antagonistic environments - the urban, increasingly present, composed of a globally connected information society, and the rural, increasingly reduced, relating to the local community dedicated to the land and traditions - culminating in the creation of hybrid spaces in transformation. Faced with this changing reality, there is a difficulty in dealing with the disappearance of the rural world, which is also reflected in architecture that sometimes mimics the forms of a lost past, and sometimes, in a vanguard tone, denies its origins, creating spaces of conflict whose identity is fragmented, as is the case in many villages in this country. With the aim of guiding the project practice of a house in the village of Travasso - a former rural area undergoing urbanization - this research seeks to understand how to intervene in such a context in order to confer unity (and therefore harmony) both to the project and to the place. To that end, we seek to study a project method capable of reconciling these two realities - rural past and urban present - based on the concept of banality, which, as Álvaro Siza points out, it possesses continuity. By referring to the common, and thus to elements that remain constant over time and space, banality has the ability to traverse a wide range of realities, even the most opposing ones, contributing to their reconciliation. As the main reference for this study, we highlight the legacy of the Escola do Porto, which, under the concept of the terceira via, it also sought to reconcile the nostalgia of the past related to Portuguese rural and local tradition, with the modernity of the present, global and urban. The presentation of the project process is divided into three distinct phases: the first concerning to the exploration of the project's conditioning factors - Conhecer, the second regarding its research themes - Compreender, and the third relating to the evolution of the project's options - Conceber. At the beginning of each phase, an explanation of its relevance to the work method investigated is found in (and as) parentheses. |
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