Tradição e Modernidade na obra de Raul Chorão Ramalho na Madeira

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Autor(a) principal: Jani Anjo Travassos Freitas
Data de Publicação: 2012
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/80324
Resumo: With extensive work in Portugal and Insular Regions, in Macau and in Brasilia, Chorão Ramalho is undoubtely an unavoidable figure of Portuguese and International Architecture. It is, however, in Madeira, that his work is stated on a larger scale, having designed more than fifty works for the most diverse programmatic functions, from churches, hotels, single and multi-family buildings, to many other equipments, offices and services buildings. Faced with a heavily humanized landscape, mark of a cultural heritage from an Island populated from scratch sustaining a monumental asset value, Chorão Ramalho soon falls for "The Atlantic Pearl". An Island that holds great multitude, with extensive sea front and fully wooded hills just a few kilometers away; several territorial specificities, with completely urbanized and rural areas, and even landscapes in its purest form, untouched by man; and a pretty rugged orography, wich is wide challenge for building. That's every architect's dream. With parallel intentions to the creators of "Inquérito à Arquitectura Portuguesa", and even working with some of its greatest names such as Keil do Amaral and Nuno Teotónio Pereira, Chorão Ramalho saw Madeira as an ideal place to explore his beliefs. For that matter, he developed his own investigation in the Island in order to understand its topography and climate, the materials and construction techniques used in its popular, vernacular and erudite architecture, and even the customs of the Madeirian People, manifested in their peculiar way of adapting to the territory. All these aspects are clearly demonstrated in his Work in Madeira. A modern work, perfectly integrated at his time, but accepting local traditions' aspects. At a time featured with an emerging urban and industrial development, increasingly disconnected from land values, the architect will reintroduce the vernacular and popular forms of madeiran architecture, interpreted in truly modern compositions. To this end, Chorão Ramalho profusely utilizes the Island's stone materials and its construction techniques, manipulated in modern plastic compositions (Imaculado Coração de Maria's Church); uses the popular and vernacular architecture's formal aspects, incorporating the typical green blinds and traditional "pleasure houses" in his works (Bianchi's House); and finally, introduces the era's memory, supported in agricultural production, by interpreting iconic elements that characterizes madeirian landscapes, like the typical terraced fields and levadas, symbols of the hard work of Madeirian people in the art of "shaping" the land (Regional Legislative Assembly). As a result, Chorão Ramalho leaves a grand legacy on the Island, influencing future generations whose works are presently based on the same principles. It is a work of character's sign, an inheritance that certainly will go on for future times.
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title_full Tradição e Modernidade na obra de Raul Chorão Ramalho na Madeira
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