A arquitectura humanizada do quarteirão

: acessibilidades

Abstract

This work focuses the main theme of accessibility. It deals with the research, analysis and use project as methodology, in search of the best architectural solution. Subsequently certified by the typology of the building block for generating the inner courtyard as a model to address the needs of emerging contemporary trends at the level of multifamily housing, supported on reference projects and case studies. The proposed plan by the form of the block, providing public spaces endowed with characteristics that act as enhancer of social relations and neighbourship. A more human space. Since the scale to the scale in the neighborhood of housing. The importance attributed to the city in the spatial organization of the territories, began in the search of understanding of what was, what is, and what will be the city in the future. We believe that by understanding the relationship that the citizen has maintained throughout history with the urban environment, provides useful data that allow increasingly improve the habitat of the city, providing balance, quality of life and healthy existence. We are aware that it will be useful to reflect on globalization installed in cities and the consequences of the social and physical, associated. Various factors, including longevity, contribute to the elderly not stop increasing. Recent data show that aging and birth rates have modifying effects of today's society. Scenario that leaves precedes changes that will change the situation in various aspects such as health care urbanism. It is imperative to provide quality housing not only for seniors but also for everyone, a multigenerational logic. Thinking in architecture to predict optical accessibility in indoor and outdoor environments. That encourages the interaction of diversity of individuals with a view to their inclusion. Reflect on the locals and physical elements that make up the urban structure sensitive in the city as historic centres, the block and the green areas, stages of social interactions that are changing. The site focuses intervention in Viseu and covers Freguesia de São José explore this territory from analysis to the presentation of the solution of intervention with an urban design that expresses the will to sort and prioritize. Through a structured plan, which sees the city as a continuous space. In order to transform the fragmented space and urban void disqualified a cohesive urban fabric.

Date of Award	16 Dec 2013
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	António da Silva Ferreira de Carvalho (Supervisor) & Gonçalo Nuno Pinheiro de Sousa Byrne (Co-Supervisor)