O Barracão de Trandeiras - Uma perspectiva sobre a Arquitectura e Urbanismo no Baixo Minho.

• Autor(a) principal: Orlando Jorge Ribeiro da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/150380
• topic: Artes; Arts

The work that follows is intended to be, above all, a reflection about the reality that surrounds me, from which I try to look into the situation of architecture and urbanism in the periphery of the urban centres in low Minho. To this end it was studied the parish of Trandeiras, located 6 km south from the centre of Braga, where I currently live. The epicentre of this work, is one of the many outbuildings, rudimentary built, mainly since the 50's, to meet the requirements of a lifestyle that is still connected with an acute rural past. However, this, was chosen for having the particularity of, after being abandoned, have been spontaneously transformed into a social living space and an important dynamic force for the community. All this happened without any kind of project and without an architect, as to what happens with most of the constructions in this region, where the importance of these professionals is still not recognized. With this construction as the epicentre, it is intended to discuss what is Architecture after all and what influence can it play in the way we live and coexist. But above all it is discussed the self-construction issue, by trying to understand the reasons behind its emergence and proliferation, what influence it has on the image and land management, what will be the responsibility of the architects in this situation and what attitude to adopt towards this reality. In the end it is developed a proposal for a "new" Barracão, which attempts to synthesize and present in design what has been studied in this work.