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Architect Sandra Brito's Doctoral Public Test Pensar a intervenção contemporânea no território de Braga.
Do estudo das permanências: mediação coespacialidade e justa-distância

November 29, 2023, Wednesday, 3pm, Flat Room

Architect Sandra Brito's PhD Public Test will be held on November 29, Wednesday, at 3pm, in the Plana Room.

The thesis is entitled Thinking about contemporary intervention in the territory of Braga. From the study of permanence: mediation, co-spatiality and just-distance.

Jury

Dr. Vítor Manuel Oliveira da Silva (President)
Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto

Doctor Miguel Sopas de Melo Bandeira
Associate Professor with Aggregation at the University of Minho

Dr. Paulo Alexandre Tormenta Pinto
Full Professor at the University Institute of Lisbon

Dr. Teresa Manuel Almeida Calix Augusto
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto

Dr. Maria Madalena Ferreira Pinto da Silva
Retired Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto

Abstract

The recognition of the historical condition of the territory in the case of Braga, linked to the phenomenon of different adaptations to the geomorphological contrasts that characterize the region, sets the starting point for an analysis focused on valuing the links that have always been established with the attributes of places. The idea of territoriality, which is put forward as a hypothesis of an order, is combined with this perspective of recognizing a specific way of organizing the territory, in order to understand to what extent the study of permanence can be methodologically constituted as a useful procedure in the context of the dynamics of intervention. The proposal progresses through the systematization of three concepts - mediation, co-spatiality and just-distance, which stand out for their potential for continuity, in the consubstantiation of an idea of bond that may be of interest to the contemporary condition of the territory. In line with the contributions that explore approaches between urbanism, architecture and landscape, this research seeks to pave the way for new practices of action that are more inspired by the great founding gestures of the landscape.

Guidance Team

Madalena Pinto da Silva, Marta Labastida [EAAD-UM], Helena Paula Abreu de Carvalho [ICS-UM]