Arquitectura para o maior número. Uma estrutura de proximidade para o caso específico das ilhas do Porto

• Autor(a) principal: João Paulo Lima Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/128262
• topic: Artes; Arts

This dissertation seeks to highlight a world of precarious housing where the intervention's emergency is extreme, and the lack of resources tends to exclude architects from the equation. Taking into account the specific case of Porto's ilhas, we will illustrate the consequences of this exclusion, as well as what leads residents on ilhas to address the problem (and to perpetuate it), while analysing a way to professionalize the approach to the problem, and introduce the architect in interventions for the benefit of those who live there. The research will focus on the genesis, evolution and future potential of ilhas, mobilizing both existing bibliography and a real interaction with the actors on the site. This last methodological component, made possible by the workshop Arquitectos de Família, will allow us to illustrate through a case study (where the author participated in the elaboration of the project and in the monitoring of the construction building's execution), to reflect on opportunities, gaps and positive aspects that some actors have already been taken to stop the social inequalities manifested by precarious housing. Based on the knowledge accumulated throughout the investigation, we intend to answer two questions: what are the best design practices that allow us to reconcile the urgency of interventions with the necessary quality, so that the housing determinant is not a factor of social exclusion. And also, what characteristics should a proximity structure have for the specific case of Porto's ilhas, which shortens the distances between architects and those with more modest resources, thus guarantee architecture to the largest number.