O Banho Público do Porto: análise e projecto de intervenção

• Autor(a) principal: Martin Markl
• 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/10216/131590
• topic: Artes; Arts

This Master's dissertation in architecture represents a study on the culture of baths in the western sphere, with an emphasis on the case study of the city of Porto. Addressing the various expressions and practices of its time, the architectural forms and their social/cultural meanings in each epoch for society, we had, as a final objective, the realization of a new Public Bath for the city of Oporto, adapted to the present time. The Public Bath, besides providing hydrotherapeutic applications, also provides a space for relaxation, also favoring social interactions, often ocurring in a casual manner and involving different sectors of society. But this establishment also intends to involve bathers in a spiritual environment, allowing contemplation and regeneration of body and mind. It was beneficial for this work the knowledge of the "Programa de valorização do património da empresa Águas do Porto, EM", which enabled us to frame the new project in an old water reservoir in the area of Amial in Paranhos/Porto. This programme allowed our project to fit into two well identified strategies: the socio-cultural and the cultural/patrimonial. Throughout a careful observation of the structure and the space of the reservoir, we intend to identify the already existing qualities, which will be preserved when designing the new project. Whilst the presence of water in the reservoir tank and in the steam baths of the Public Bath, is promoting an immediate relationship with the visitor/bather, it also establishes a reference to the memory of the culture of bathing, as well to the history of the reservoir which, in fact, have always relied on the same element - water.