O futuro de uma herança. Reinventando uma habitação rural

• Author(s): Vanessa Alexandra Peneda Arezes
• Date: 2017
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/106172
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Artes; Arts
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: Portuguese

Description

Rural architecture presents itself as an example of occupation in the territory and of the ways of inhabiting of a community, determining an era in the history of Portuguese architecture and its evolution. Based on the understanding of popular architecture, a brief analysis of the origin of this theme as a concept and its development over time was carried out in the first part of the present dissertation, characterized by the diversity of ways of interpreting this architecture, specific to each community. The project exercise allowed the development of many of the issues raised by the nature of popular architecture, associated with the vernacular and rurality, which has been disappearing with the increasing metamorphosis of the rural world and of society. The second subchapter of the first part focuses, essentially, on the study of popular architecture models, on the variety of examples that bring together a set of constructive processes, models of space organization and ways of dwelling. The 'terceira via' (third way) proposed by Fernando Távora is an important contribution to the development of the proposal. The works presented, both root-building and rehabilitation, bring together the dichotomy of tradition and modernity. Siza Vieira and José Gigante also present reference works for this paper as (re) interpretation of the Portuguese house, pointing us clues in the discovery of a form of traditional housing adapted to the current demands of comfort and current ways of dwelling. Thus, the first stage of analysis was important for understanding the context inherent to case study, focused on the Portuguese Northwest, particularly in the Minho region. The variety of examples of popular architecture allows us to understand the intrinsic particularity of each construction, associated to a historical-social context. The second part focuses on the study and analysis of a centenary 'rural' house in a parish of Viana do Castelo, a product of various transformations over the years, resulting in a mixture of juxtaposed volumes with distribution problems and construction issues due to age and worn out condition. In addition to this factor, the promiscuous situation in which the house is found has made it difficult to develop a stable proposal with a current sense, preserving its identity and respecting the surroundings. The last subchapter of the second part emphases on the project exercise, clarifying the origin of the process and the underlying constraints. In this sense, the importance of the preliminary study of recent rehabilitation examples is relevant, aiding the decision making during the conception of a proposal for a rehabilitation/reconstruction project which aims to be implemented in the near future. Finally, a reflection is made on the fundamental objective of this work drawing conclusions about the interpretation of a traditional and 'anonymous' architecture by a contemporary project.