A Escarpa dos Guindais e das Fontainhas. Apontamentos sobre desenho, projeto e transformação da cidade

• Autor(a) principal: Adriana Leal Pacheco
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/125399
• topic: Artes; Arts

The present study is developed around the debate upon the place's identification in the contemporary city, known from the recognition of spatial and temporal variety of Oporto hillside, enabling the complexity of thought between the city's architecture and the inhabited place, particularly the Guindais and Fointaínhas's scarp for its singular location. We consider important to hightlight, through an architectural view of the city, the recognition of the space and shape in its urban materiality through the place's memory, from where is possible to extract fundamental information for the city's draw, project and tranformation. Therefore, we propose to research about the process of construction of the place wich, despite its actual state of degradation, abandonment and apparent stagnation, still allows us to make a reading around its identity that, little by little, deteoriorates giving place to an existential emptiness in the shadow of a barely known dynamic we intend to uncover. We undertake our study from the recognition of the urban core's implantation and growth towards the east in an image of unambiguous relation btween the inside and the outside defined by its walled limit, keeping the permanent contact with the Douro River, embodied in the axis between Batalha Square and the old Guindais Pier. This high level-low level axis, still implicit in the rban tissue, ties up definition principles between the public and private sphere which shape lays in the public accessibility - Codeçal and Guindais's stairs and the Corticeira ramp - and the subtlety of the contact with the overlooking terraces over the Douro River. An incursion throught the Oporto's hillside terraces does not exonerate but rather compels to recover the place's idea, as a unique dwell-build space. Here resides, in our view, the complexity enunciated in the place's own uniqueness: the originality and intelligence regarding the organization of the space appealed by its own morphology.