O cemitério na contemporaneidade. O sentido de requalificar.

• Autor(a) principal: Maria Isabel Li
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/78638
• topic: Artes; Arts

This Master Dissertation discusses the cemetery in the contemporary, namelyin the sense of "requalifying" this equipment inserted in extensive urban space.The functional and emotional character of this kind of space, makes it anexclusive equipment. The cemetery, more than a site of deposition of bodies, is aplace of worship and silence, which is intended to the deads and the living ones.«Just as death is the end of life, that gives it form and value that closes thecircle, the silence is also the supreme end of language and consciousness. Everythingthat is said or written, all that is known, is to this, it truly: the silence»2.Therefore, there are noteworthy general questions on matters related withcemetery - the place of death, a space endowed with emotions and symbolism - thatintends to make a framework, which allows us to contextualize the historical level,cultural and religious the transformations taken in this.Knowing the situation of the contemporary cemetery, it is proposed torecognize the influences of urban development in relation to cemeteries located in themunicipality of Oporto, specially the relationship between the metropolis andnecropolis. Testing out three cemeteries located in different urban contexts - Lordelodo Ouro, Agramonte and Prado do Repouso - considering its implantation, the urbannetwork and urban dynamics, we sought to understand the meaning of "rehabilitation"of these spaces.It's not intended to reach a project of "rehabilitation", but to analyze andinvestigate this matter, in the point of view of an architect, on the issues ofboundaries, like the cemetery wall (its importance in the definition of this equipment)and urban network that involves, as mobility has influenced how throughout its urbanroutes.