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Underground contemporary houses in the North of Portugal
| Resumo: | Using nature itself – on prehistoric caves – or as inspiration for their artificial constructions - such as in one of the first known settlements: Çatal Huyuk in Anatolia, man always looked for underground shelter. The North of Portugal is characterized by a disperse territory occupancy, what is problematic due to infra-structures and transport environmental costs. This reality has diverse causes: accented topography, parcel split of soil due to multiple transmission of property, an intensive labour and delocalized small industry. The generalized access to individual transport in the last 30 years accentuated this phenomena, that is now irreversible, but economic paradigm is now changing drastically, with small industries closing and increasing unemployment, what is now impelling the return to individual means of subsistence, such as private poultry. But a lot of soil surface is now blocked for agriculture, due to the existence of small disperse buildings that pop up on territory, difficult accesses and limiting the insulation to potentially productive soils. This is especially critical on South oriented slopes. Increase density is now utopia for this region, so a strategy proposed for dealing with this reality can be to integrate new constructions on terrace slopes, leaving the housing upper and immediate vicinity soil more easily available for agriculture and reducing visual impact of buildings on landscape. |
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| Autores principais: | Alves, Helena Fernanda Domingues Vaz |
| Outros Autores: | Mendonça, Paulo |
| Assunto: | Underground houses Portugal |
| Ano: | 2010 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Using nature itself – on prehistoric caves – or as inspiration for their artificial constructions - such as in one of the first known settlements: Çatal Huyuk in Anatolia, man always looked for underground shelter. The North of Portugal is characterized by a disperse territory occupancy, what is problematic due to infra-structures and transport environmental costs. This reality has diverse causes: accented topography, parcel split of soil due to multiple transmission of property, an intensive labour and delocalized small industry. The generalized access to individual transport in the last 30 years accentuated this phenomena, that is now irreversible, but economic paradigm is now changing drastically, with small industries closing and increasing unemployment, what is now impelling the return to individual means of subsistence, such as private poultry. But a lot of soil surface is now blocked for agriculture, due to the existence of small disperse buildings that pop up on territory, difficult accesses and limiting the insulation to potentially productive soils. This is especially critical on South oriented slopes. Increase density is now utopia for this region, so a strategy proposed for dealing with this reality can be to integrate new constructions on terrace slopes, leaving the housing upper and immediate vicinity soil more easily available for agriculture and reducing visual impact of buildings on landscape. |
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