Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação nº 06-07 (2012)
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Item Digital Pseudo Communication in Architectural Design(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Antonis, PapamanolisThis paper focuses on a hermeneutic approach to digital architectural methodologies. Firstly, it is established that the digital design product can be examined as an object of interpretation. Secondly the digital design process itself is conceptualized as an interpretative process, through the utilization of the model of the hermeneutic circle. An attempt is then been made to establish a framework of two distinct approaches to the integration of the digital tools in design. This framework is finally examined in order to question the limitations of digital design tools regarding the design processes in which they are being integrated.Item The SURE-Africa Project: Sustainable Urban Renewal – Energy Efficient Buildings for Africa(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Pereira, Italma; Guedes, Manuel Correia; Chenvidyakarn, Torwong; Cantuária, Gustavo; Borges, Klas; Alves, Luís Manuel Monteiro; Aleixo, JoanaThis paper summarizes the results achieved by the 3-year E.U. SURE-Africa project. The project aims at strengthening knowledge and its application in practice, contributing to a sustainable development through the vital area of energy efficiency in buildings and cities, and, ultimately, to reduce poverty. Academic and professional expertise from three E.U. Universities - namely the Higher Technical Institute (IST, Coord, Portugal), the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Lund (Sweden) - was organised to set up a data-base of information, in cooperation with Academic Institutions in Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Guinea), with information about tools, case studies and teaching material in the field of sustainable, energy-efficient building and urban design. Seminars, workshops and conferences were carried out, and best-practice Manuals are also being published as a final outcome of the project.Item Porcellanato Tile Finishings over Wood Structures in the Giorgio Armani Retail S.R.L. – Avenida da Liberdade 220 - Lisboa(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Santa-Rita, António José deThe refurbishments in old buildings in Lisbon means, usually, to know how to deal with wood structure floor boarding's buildings. The architects have almost always the problem of the finishing of these kind of floors with a different material from wood, because of the consequences of the stresses, the contractions and expansions of the wood in which floors are made and the curvature or flexion due to the flexibility of the material wood and also, due to the surcharges – persons as dynamic charges and the static ones, the weight of the furniture, shelves, goods, etc.Item Arquitectura y Procesos Culturales(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Lobos, JorgeEl concepto de Arquitectura Cultural, es un intento de avanzar en la formulación de un cuerpo teórico, que haga conscientes los particulares valores humanos de cada territorio, en la producción del proyecto arquitectónico. Esta idea plantea la posibilidad que el arquitecto logre una mayor comprensión de estos valores culturales, para transformarlos en una herramienta útil al momento de actuar en la nueva complejidad creciente de la ciudad y poder expresar las diversas sensibilidades y visiones de mundo de los ciudadanos en el siglo XXI. Parafraseando al movimiento moderno que sentenció “…LA FORMA SIGUE A LA FUNCION…” Hoy podríamos decir “… LA FORMA SIGUE A LA CULTURA…” O en otras palabras, la arquitectura no es tan solo un problema de forma física, es más bien un problema de forma social.Item Using visual methodologies to understand the urban cultural landscape(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Menezes, Marluci; Allen, Judith; Vasconcelos, LiaThis reflection explores the advantages of using visual methodologies to understand the urban cultural landscape, focusing on the use and appropriation of public space by immigrants. We based this discussion on an exploratory study developed for the Praça República in Ericeira, within the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, that identified specific characteristics of the use and appropriation of urban public space by Brazilian immigrants. It identifies five advantages arising from the use of visual methodologies: (1) the process of collection and registration of information; (2) multiple possibilities of articulation between the visual techniques of observation and analysis and the interpretation techniques for other information collected; (3) enhancing inter/multidisciplinary potential through the working methodologies; (4) improving the capacity to respond to urban social diversity and complexity; (5) the potential for mapping the social practices of immigrants.Item Small Active Urbanism : Liitle Havana's configuration and use of public space as a paradigm for a socially sustainable urbanity in multicultural cities(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Alvarez Lombardero, NuriaSince 1959 Miami has been the major entry point for Latin American immigrants in the United States, what has made of the city a hot spot of social conflict between races and cultures in the country. In Miami, a pervading logic of city space privatization and inherited modern urban planning tradition based on automobile use and secure suburban gated communities, have led to an increasing tension between individuals and groups with different cultural, social, ethnic and economical backgrounds. In contrast, Little Havana neighbourhood, epicentre of Cuban exiles in Miami for years and stepping stone for new Latin American immigrants, has become not only the most multicultural neighbourhood, but also the less conflictive in the city. Little Havana’s public space spatial configuration and its use by Miami’s citizens has made the coexistence of these different forms of life possible. In this article, an analysis of different small-scale interventions, community events and remaining spatial configurations created by first Cuban entrepreneurs in Little Havana, will unveil the possibility of a different urban praxis in Miami, based on small scale interventions and the activation of the public space.Item Framing Luchtbal: Local Muslim Community and Global Urban Machinery(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Stevens, JeroenLuchtbal is a neighbourhood in the North of Antwerp, the major harbour city of Belgium. Since the last decades, the urban quarter became largely inhabited by migrant families. In this paper I will explore some relation between the extremely different scales in the urban process of migration. On the one hand I will elaborate on the historical evolution of the modernist social housing project of Luchtbal, and the way it became the migrant neighbourhood of today. On the other hand I will elaborate on the particular case of the local Atthawid mosque, and the ambivalent role it plays for both the social apparatus of the residential quarter and the global urban machinery.Item Le concept de modèle dans l’enseignement de la conception architecturale(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Kadi, HayetAs architectural design cannot be satisfied for its own knowledge, it requires a conceptual work, which can be interpreted as "design concepts", and can only be formulated through a modeling; architecturologic scale is regarded here, as a design operator. This study clarify how can architecturology understand the cognitive mechanisms of the design from graphic expression taken as supports for indicial signs of architectural labor. To respond to the need of combining living and creation spaces, Le Corbusier approached the design of the artist’s house, through the metaphor of tools. By proceeding to a modeling reading, we shall try to bring out a conceptual model that may solve the problem. The purpose is an essential component of a model, since it conditions the way the modeler is going to select the elements of reality, he deems relevant to answer the question on one hand, and build relationships between these elements on the other. To understand the design process leading to the artist's house, we thus suggest analyzing the put problem by means of architecturologic scales. The proposed answer (or program) will be tested on a second building to evaluate its relevance.Item Pedagogical Implication for International Cooperation in Architectural Design Studio(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Bala, Havva Alkan; Bussiere, MarcInternational cooperation in architectural design studio is an important topic which addresses many issues facing educators today, especially in terms of an increasing international practice and exploring the advances in communication technology. Architecture has transformed in a professional field which the universal concepts like sustainability is the main focuse point while designing. In order to give consciousness to the students becoming “world citizens” and to design with “universal values”, educators must create alternative educational circumstance to increase their students’ vision of their role in this profession. In this article, a specific teaching methodology which supports the international cooperation issue in the design studio is presented as teaching/learning experience. SAIT Polytechnic Architectural Technologies in Calgary-Canada and Selçuk University Department of Architecture in Konya- Turkey carried out a pilot project in international cooperation.