Lugar-não-lugar

: arquitetura epidémica do shopping mall ao hostel, Porto, 1980-2010

Resumo

This dissertation follows a thematic structure that comes from the selection of essential concepts regarding the relation between one and perception notion of place – perception, memory, identity, space – that construct the reflection body of this research. The inevitable interaction between the individual and the architecture generates a constant perception of diferente spaces, which together with memory, creates identity and originates place over time. The principal interveniente for the transformation of space in place is the human being, through your sensorial and metaphysical experience. Non-place presupposes a negative reflection of place, meaning i tis a space that does not have any kind of relationship with the individual. The work proposes to approach the thecretical complexity inherent in the concepts of place and non-place through na initial conceptual premise – the palindrome possibility of ‘place-non-place’ – in Reading the Porto city over the past three decades. The use of two distinct typologies – shopping mall and hostel as types of there named epidemic architecture, allows us to understand their implication in the creation or noto f the city. Discuss whether if they enhance the existing place, starting or not the momentary creation of non-places. The approach focus first in one main objective relatively to the comercial centers of great magnitude – shopping mall – that were surgically located along the main arteries of communication of the city and the region from from the 80s. These new private spaces of public use have as they main objective to attract the bigger number of consumers, a regional strategic vision, mimicking until certain point, the origin of typology from the 50s in the United States. However, is importante in the articulation of analysis of the two advanced topologies, fitting some of the key events in the development of the city in these last decades. In 1996, UNESCO grants to the city of Porto the status of the World Heritage City and in 2001, is nominated European Capital of Culture with the process of the city center and bets on tourism through urban rehabilition. These two dilated moments in time mark some of the strategic policy for the city, in the first instance with the intention requalifing to safeguard the protected space of the historic downtown, and in the second with the aim of requalifing the urban core and the rehabilition of public spaces of the city through urban equipments in various scales. In the following of this events, are installed in the urban core a set of new typologies of local accommodations, reconverting and readapting the olde buildings that characterise the city, with particular emphasis on the hostel, the archetype with more exemplars, which spreads like a vírus spreads inside of a human being imune system, or in this specific case of the city, at the heart of its neuralgic system, the historic center of Porto. Currently, Porto has symptoms of a ‘sick city’ whose therapeutic of urbanista and architectural nature applied seem to be the source of the diseases. In its turn, these deceases create vulnerabilities in the city body that stay subject to the possibility of the invasion of new vírus: the non-places. It is intended to answer then i fis possible to transform a nonplace a place.

Data de atribuição	15 dez. 2015
Idioma original	Portuguese
Instituição de premiação	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Emanuel José da Rocha Ferreira de Sousa (Supervisor)