Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação

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The SURE-Africa Project : Sustainable Urban Renewal – Energy Efficient Buildings for Africa
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Guedes, Manuel Correia; Chenvidyakarn, Torwong; Cantuária, Gustavo; Borges, Klas; Alves, Luís Manuel Monteiro; Aleixo, Joana; Pereira, Italma; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
This 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.
Collectivity and the Post-war European Shopping Centre
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2013) Gosseye, Janina; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
This paper puts forth the hypothesis that notions such as ‘collectivity’, ‘play’ and ‘community’ – buzz words of the post-war discourse on architecture and urbanism – were often important elements in the design and conceptualization of post-war shopping centres in Western Europe. To investigate this hypothesis, the paper focuses on three typologically distinct shopping centres that were developed in Belgium between 1968 and 1977 – scrutinizing their design and pairing and comparing their spatial characteristics, and the idea(l)s that underpinned them, with those of other (well-known) buildings and urban models of the period.
Just a failed shopping-scape? : Urban and public values of Le Mirail’s dalle
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2013) Martín Domínguez, Guiomar; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
The famous plan for Toulouse-Le Mirail, by Candilis/Josic/Woods (1961), proposed a radical and hitherto new public space, the dalle, an elevated linear ‘stem’ that wove the whole urban intervention and concentrated all the commercial, social and cultural activity of the neighbourhood. However, the project is today stigmatized as a total social failure. The dalle has been demolished and a traditional commercial street has been implemented. Was demolition the sole alternative for Le Mirail’s future? This paper aims at identifying certain themes around the conception of the dalle, capable of informing today’s theory and practice in the design of new shopping/public-scapes. It reflects on both the most positive values of the project and on its naiveties and mistakes, conscious of the social unrest that aggrandized them. Ultimately, it calls for a deeper reflection on the urban proposals of the Modern Movement, beyond demolition as the only possible solution.
Manipulations in the abstract space
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Schurk, Holger; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
At the centre of the examinations presented here are the interaction processes taking place at the interface between theory and form in the design process effectuated by means of intermediate media – most of all drawings – in the sphere of geometry. A decisive role is assigned to abstraction, allowing to locate graphic representations at the threshold between the projection of a structural model and the notation of an imagined model. A graphic study based on the design drawings created by the architecture office OMA/Rem Koolhaas are applied here as an example in order to describe and investigate this interface. In the process the drawings are manipulatedin a hybrid procedure consisting of manoeuvres determined by rules on one hand and free operations on the other. The examination method thus stands in direct analogy to the hybrid character of the design process itself.
The Duke in his domain
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Ozga-Lawn, Matt; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
The Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga (1621-1687) was a true renaissance man. A prince, soldier, poet, artist and architect, he lived amidst the emergent and unstable origins of the architectural discipline. He created through force of will the città ideale of Sabbioneta, a place that in conflating the military and civic gives insight into the militarised mindset that helped birth the discipline we recognise today. Sabbioneta is the result of this mindset: the Duke was free to explore his existential condition through the medium of architecture. One means he used to achieve this was a theatre he commissioned at the centre of Sabbioneta, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi. The theatre was a space, housing a stage-set representation of the surrounding city, for the Duke to viscerally engage with the ideal, militarised world created around and through him.The paper will show how the duke and his domain, interacted with via the theatre space at Sabbioneta, can act as allegory for the architect in his studio space. The paper blurs agencies of the military and the architectural, with the designer’s role as viscerally engaged with and immersed within the design process discussed in this context.
The Estação Shopping Mall in Itaipava
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2013) Gazzaneo, Luiz Manoel; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
The Estação Shopping Mall was built at the site of the old Itaipava Railway Station and represents a strong point of offering of choice and leisure in the rich district of Petropolitano. It was built in the first decade of this century, and opened in December 2006. It exerts a central role in the district, not only for its architecture, where we have the forms and functionality of contemporary, but also because of the aspects that remind us to the old train station, as well as the functionality and diversity options. The ground forms a “swivel”, a roundabout on Union and Industry Road by providing two access levels. The building has two levels and external accesses by each of these levels: the level of Union and Industry Road - 1st floor level and the area above the terrain. The land has an area of 11,270.00 m2, and an occupancy rate of 75.43%, the occupied area is 8,501.59 m2 and the open area in the ground level is 4,751.41 m2, the building area is 14,336.22 m2 with 105 stores, divided in an area of 781,763 m2 in the Union and Industry level and an area of 651,859 m2 on the ground level. The building has 281 parking spaces - 83 covered in the Union and Industry Road and 198 open on the ground level; water reservoirs have a total capacity of 153,000 liters and Basic Leasing Area of 7,150.00 m2, it have several restrooms with a total of 69 toilets . Also have a flow of vehicles of 17,879 /month (media) and a flow of 71,000 persons/month, public of classes A and B. The Estação Shopping Mall has two anchor stores at Union and industry level, two anchor stores at ground level, 33 shops at the Union and Industry level, 70 shops on the ground level, the possibility of up to twelve (12) feed operations with 100 outdoor seating in the main squares. The anchor stores are Planeta Corpus Fitness and Lojas Americanas in the Union and Industry level. And two cinemas at the ground level, semi-anchors are Vagão Beer Food, Richards, Bank of Brazil, Santander Bank, the satellites shops are Kopenhagen, Osklen, Mr.Cat, Claro, Bob's, Chez Michou, Datelli, Wollner, Sorvete Brasil, Mio, Tableware, Feet Foot, Kevingston, Ary Delicatessen, Imaginarium, among others. The mall has 2 escalators, 1 panoramic elevator, 2 lakes, a skylight all over the upper main floor, Central Monitoring, Air Conditioning - 6 machines, and ambient music with exclusive programming. The Itaipava Mall now represents a new option for living and recreation not only for the people of the 3rd district of Petropolis but also to the nearby 2nd District - Cascatinha, and the 4th District Pedro do Rio. Around the shopping mall there are some commercial establishments and residential class “A”. It is a new benchmark not only for the options to shop, but also for the leisure activities.
Skywalking in Hong Kong : disrupting flows in the consumerist wonderland
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2013) Spurr, Sam; Kwok, Evelyn; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
Hong Kong, a global city continuously expanding vertically and multiplying the opportunities for profit generation skywards. Networks of skywalks connect this vast shoppingscape, defining a directory of consumption that constantly shifts the experience and understanding of the city. This paper explores how the ‘consumerist wonderland’ of Hong Kong, with its fragmented identity and glorified perception of consumption, has produced an urban, spatial situation that has seamlessly circulated the flow of consumption, yet been unintentionally subverted by a passively accepted foreign force. This surprising urban guerrilla inserts a recurring, un-commoditized event that breaks the assumption of continuous consumption. Their domestication of these skywalks dedicated to consumer spending and absolute convenience, propose an alternative form of civic engagement in the contemporary urban shoppingscape. Additionally, this paper will assist in extrapolating the parallels and reciprocity between the occupations of the elevated walkways and the urban terrain of Hong Kong.
A case for the urbanisation of future Irish shoppingscapes
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2013) Greaney, Deirdre; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
This paper puts forward a case for the urbanisation of future Irish shoppingscapes. It does so out of concern over the lack of urban design that factors in urban social sustainability found in Irish shoppingscapes built during the Celtic Tiger years. With reference to the challenge set to designers by De Solà-Morales (1992): “the urbanization of the private domain as a new challenge,” this research investigates urbanisation from the socio-cultural perspective. It informs itself from the discourse in urban theory focusing on conditions that allow for urban social sustainability. In attempting to define design’s role in the creation of these conditions, an evaluation criterion is drawn from this discourse and applied to shoppingscape case studies, to determine if their designs factor in urban social sustainability. The findings highlight Celtic Tiger shoppingscapes and also demonstrate how the concepts derived from urban theory can inform the design of future shoppingscapes, emphasising conditions that allow for socio-cultural urbanisation.
MXT Studio
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2013) Almeida, Maximina; Cruz, Telmo; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
Os espaços públicos na reconversão da zona da Expo’98
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2010) Garcia, Pedro Ressano; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
O projecto urbano do Parque das Nações tem sido apontado como um caso de sucesso pelo que para compreendê-lo consideramos necessário analisar não somente o projecto inicial e o resultado final, mas conhecer também, o processo de desenvolvimento do próprio projecto. Ao longo do processo muitos foram os intervenientes e as influências que são aqui identificadas e esplanadas nos seus aspectos mais relevantes. Para reflectir sobre uma fórmula de sucesso a análise centra-se na relevância dos espaços públicos, e a maneira como estruturam a implementação do projecto de urbanização do recinto da Expo '98. Há informação especifica que não sendo de carácter exacto ou científico teve influência no projecto. Começamos por contextualizar apresentando alguns antecedentes ao início do projecto, explicando como se processaram acordos institucionais, tendo como objectivo a integração social com os bairros vizinhos e analisamos a função dos espaços públicos na eliminação de barreiras físicas. Por fim debatemos a influência que o ambiente industrial tem na herança cultural ribeirinha e a actual componente da sustentabilidade e cultura ecológica expressa na presença da água junto á cidade. Por fim apresentamos algumas conclusões relativas ás características dos espaços públicos de maior sucesso no Parque das Nações que ao transformarem a morfologia dos terreno portuário monofuncional viabilizam a sua humanização e o convite à usufruição na frente ribeirinha.
Outside the category
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Bang, Jacob Sebastian; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
It is a recurring theme in my research to establish collections of study models and to find ways of decoding, transforming and representing them in drawings and as new models. The models are “outside the category”: pure form and architectural potential -“prior to an idea”. To become architectural ideas, they must be decoded in drawings in order to be dissolved into architectural signs and rules.
The Alcaicería of Granada (Spain) : from a silk trade center to a post-touristic shopping-scape
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2013) Muñoz, Juan; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
The Alcaicería of Granada is a contemporary post-touristic shopping-scape with deeps roots in history. In the Medieval Arab world, the term al-qaysāriyya described a commercial institution for the silk trade as well as an architectonic typology. In Al-Andalus, the typology was a cluster of shops located in the center of the main cities. After the Reconquest, these structures were maintained and alcaicerías were even built, as commercial spaces, in America and the Philippines. The decline of the silk trade provoked their disappearance, with the exception of Granada's. The chronicle of the Alcaicería of Granada begins with a "transaction document" (1460), continues with its reconstruction in Alhambresque style (1843) and its conversion into a theme market for handcrafts (1940), to its recent restoration (2002). Today, the mimetic atmosphere full of souvenirs, among just a few local crafts, is a commercial urban scenario that mixes reality and fiction for tourists.
The city walls. an old theme for new urban spaces
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Miano, Pasquale; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
The walls of the historic cities have always been an occasion to reason about urbanopen spaces. Suffice it to think at the ancient settlements, where the areas excludedby the fence walls then became indeterminate urban places, object of subsequentfilling operations. For a long time, the theme of the conservation of the city walls hasprevailed over the issues of dejection and the cycles of ring roads, charactering theXIX century and the first half of the XX century. Yet, this recurring theme oftenproduces conservative actions for their own sake, in which the relics of the rampartsare surrounded by narrow and pointless gardens: a new form of insulation, that -when does not result in intentionally physical seclusion - at least so appears at theconceptual level, especially when the walls have been preserved for partial fragments.Today the necessity to take a step forward is strongly felt, rethinking about thespaces of the walls according to new processing and content, in which the city wallsresume to play a proactive role.
Small Active Urbanism : Little 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, Nuria; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
Since 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.
Research and practice : full-size practical constructions for the development of innovative lithic prototypes
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Fallacara, Giuseppe; Calabria, Claudia; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
The construction of full scale architectural elements has the double purpose of experimental control for researchers and teaching resource for students. In the first case model allows to make an experimental verification, creating a reference point to confirm or refute the starting hypothesis. The second function makes possible to stimulate students’ way of thinking, involving both abstract and concrete design aspects. This link between research, teaching and practice of construction is shown in various examples. This relation represents a necessary element in order to successfully proceed in the advance of architectural experimentation.
Imagem artificial e concepção arquitectónica
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2010) Pinheiro, Vasco; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
Não só no universo do ensino da arquitectura mas também no âmbito da profissão propriamente dita, o tema das novas tecnologias associadas à actividade do projecto e da sua dinâmica de concepção constitui, hoje, um tema efervescente que encetou um debate alargado nos meios institucionais próprios conduzindo a uma importante reflexão e ao avanço de diversos tipos de considerações. Esta reflexão procura analisar os impactos que os novos meios tecnológicos postos à disposição do projecto de arquitectura, e da actividade arquitectónica em geral, vêm introduzindo nas questões que se prendem com o pensamento operativo do arquitecto bem como, com aquelas que se prendem com o método, ou métodos, desenvolvidos na nas fases de concepção e configuração.
Loteamento e moradias : estratégias bioclimáticas
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2007) Rosa, Ricardo Sanchez; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
A arquitectura tem um importante papel a desempenhar na temática da construção sustentável que procura, entre outras situações, minimizar o impacto da construção no Ambiente, através das opções, critérios, estratégias e prioridades seguidas no acto de projectar, que têm um impacto significativo no conforto térmico, visual e acústico que os edifícios irão proporcionar aos seus utilizadores ao longo da sua vida, bem como influenciar os consumos de energia necessários para reequilibrar os níveis de conforto desejáveis. Esta apresentação procura mostrar um conjunto de medidas e estratégias aplicadas, na elaboração de um projecto para um loteamento urbano e em moradias, no âmbito da arquitectura bioolimátioa, que promove uma forma de projectar com o clima em benefício do Edifício, das Pessoas e do Ambiente.
Arquitectura sustentável : oportunidades e desafios
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2007) Guedes, Manuel Correia; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
Esta intervenção apresenta uma breve abordagem sobre o tema da arquitectura sustentável: os seus conceitos básicos e a necessidade da sua implementação. Faz-se também referência à situação no contexto Português.
Polycentrism and commercial “central” places in Rome : state of art and scenarios of urban qualification
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2013) Cappuccitti, Antonio; Afrasinei, Alexandra; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
Urban Planning in Rome today tends towards a polycentric structure of the suburbs and of the metropolitan area. For this reason, a system of important “Central Districts” is under construction, and some of them also contain large commercial super-structures. The paper intends to analyze the positive and negative aspects of the relationship between urban polycentrism and commercial super-structures in the city of Rome, starting from the description of the historical relationship between the morphogenetic potentiality of the commercial function and the structure of urban space, and observing the events and characteristics of three largest and most important new Central Districts (Bufalotta, EUR Sud, Ponte di Nona). Starting from this analysis, some topics and criteria for the planning and the urban qualification of this type of urban districts are briefly presented.
Transreal topographies : manifesting the unconscious
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Kypraiou, Diony; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
Drawing largely upon a study of the ‘transreal’1 topographies of the late 19th century,with a focus on the Freudian topographic constructions through drawings and criticalreviews of Freud’s own writings, this paper examines the role of the unconscious as adrive in the creative design process and its impact on the conception, perception andexperience of space. In an attempt to examine the relation between the Freudianunconscious and the space, this paper presents a set of constructed topographies,including the actual psychoanalytical setting and, a recreation of Freud’s desk, as themanifested topography of his own unconscious. Operating as an analogical act of‘unearthing’ that ‘brings to light’ a multiplicity of layers where unconscious appearsanalogous to physical space; this paper aims at a negotiation of ‘transreal’topographies as extended projections of instincts, desires, fantasies and fears; a siteof mutation that-‘as an expanse of ruins’-demands a disruption to reveal the depthof its spatiality

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