A Torre e a Cidade. Um projecto para Campanhã

• Autor(a) principal: Sara Mónica Neves Sampaio
• 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/10216/129157
• topic: Artes; Arts

What leads us to design a skyscraper in Porto? What would it be to design a skyscraper in Campanhã? This thesis explores the modern movement and European tradition on the subject of construction of tall structures, applied to the city of Porto, with all its particularities. The essence of the gothic cathedrals - their contextual logic within the territory - and the recent constructive progress are used as key-factors to design a skyscraper as an urban landmark. The skyscraper is glamorous; it develops the feeling of fascination, pride and wonder in people; and promotes progress. In connection with a set of cultural, social, environmental and economic dynamics, the skyscraper has the ability to reinvent and transform life of a place which is depressed and frozen in time. Although Campanhã is a place abandoned by young people, where the elderly live alone, it is also one of the areas of the city of Porto with the highest potential for transformation and with the ability to propel private investment, due to the strong accessibility that its dense transport infrastructure enables. These factors constituted the starting point for the development of a skyscraper. The strategy to concentrate construction in an area of reduced implantation results in the possibility of using the remaining area for green spaces and a new square, both of which come to integrate the system of public spaces in the city of Porto. From these, and through active engagement with sensitive dialogue, we have looked for relations with the surrounding scales, adding value to the city and to the people who live there.