Os espaços públicos das Caldas da Rainha. Regeneração urbana e identidade

Mestrado em Arquitetura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia - UL

Centros culturais portugueses: espaços vivos da cultura europeia?

Dissertação de mest. em Gestão Cultural, Univ. do Algarve, Univ. de Paris - 8, 1999

Qualidade do ar interior e conforto térmico : um estudo em espaços de estacionamento em Natal/RN

The recent tendency to utilize parking lots for other purposes has demonstrated that more time has been spent by visitors, mainly in great cities. Therefore, this paper investigates the thermal comfort and the air quality indoors in areas specifically used as parking lots by analyzing the direct relation between such environments and vehicular pollution. The thermal comfort and the quality of air indoors in parking lots with different architectonic typology (ground-floor and underground) are also studied, aiming to contribute to the proposition of suitable new areas designated to human usage. Field research was done, in two distinct periods within different weather conditions (January and July) in, two naturally cooled, parking lots located in Natal - RN. The internal environment agents were measured by using tools for air temperature, humidity, speed and direction; interviews with employees and visitors and chemical analysis through appropriate tools to analyze specific material, carbon monoxide and ozone. The results showed that chemical agents densely concentrate mostly in the closed parking space, aggravated by weather conditions, which dissatisfied the visitors. Still, it was shown that architectonic typology, alongside topographical aspects compromise internal environmental conditions, which increases the retention of pollution, leading to dissatisfactory thermal comfort levels and becoming less suitable for usage by visitors considering air and thermal comfort aspects. Consequently, they are not suitable for human stay due to the poor quality of the indoor air

Espaços em aberto - dualidades do corredor fluvial Ocidental Lisboa / Almada

Mestrado em Arquitetura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia - UL

O redesenho urbano como gerador de espaços colectivos

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.

Desenho de espaços exteriores em contexto educativo através de processo participativo

Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia - UL

Arquitectura de espaços abertos

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.

Vigilância e monitorização dos espaços marítimos sob soberania ou jurisdição portuguesa

Portugal tem uma das maiores Zonas Económicas Exclusivas a nível mundial, encerrando este espaço marítimo uma riqueza que ainda não se encontra devidamente aferida, mas que se julga ser enorme. Por ela passam anualmente milhares de navios, com os mais diversos destinos e transportando as mais variadas cargas. A posição geostratégica do país coloca-o no centro de algumas das mais movimentadas rotas marítimas, sendo por isso de extrema importância vigiar e monitorizar as águas portuguesas, por forma a garantir que as leis e regulamentos de direito internacional marítimo são cumpridos e que o interesse nacional é devidamente salvaguardado. Deste modo, a presente dissertação tem como objeto de estudo os sistemas de vigilância e monitorização marítimos, pretendendo constituir-se como um contributo para a melhoria do atual sistema de vigilância e monitorização dos espaços marítimos sob soberania ou jurisdição portuguesa, focando-se, para tal, nos sistemas aéreos e espaciais para a deteção de meios de superfície. Para tal, numa primeira parte considera-se estudar o ambiente marítimo e as ameaças que o afetam. Na segunda parte estudam-se os atuais sistemas que contribuem para o conhecimento situacional marítimo em Portugal culminando na terceira parte com o estudo dos meios e sensores que permitem melhorar a cobertura do espaço marítimo, com o objetivo final de garantir a segurança no mar. Através do estudo realizado foi possível concluir-se que as aeronaves não tripuladas afiguram-se como o futuro mais imediato para o esclarecimento do panorama marítimo, sendo que os satélites surgem numa segunda linha, pois apesar dos seus custos mais elevados, poderão também dar um enorme contributo para o conhecimento situacional marítimo ao serem capazes de cobrir maiores áreas e mais rapidamente.

Os espaços verdes na promoção de uma vida urbana mais saudável

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.

Espaços públicos

Dissertação de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.

Viver em espaços pequenos, pré-fabricados e eco-sustentáveis

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura com Especialização em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.

Projectar com luz, cor e matéria na criação e modelação de espaços em pré-existências

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura com Especialização em Arquitectura de Interiores, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.

Depois das fronteiras: a formação dos espaços de pobreza na periferia norte de Natal-RN

The periphery of the city of Natal was built during the last 20 years, trough informal land developments. This dissertation analyses the urbanization of Natal`s North Zone, the largest residential area in the city where 40% of the population lives. This urban space is characterized as a space of poverty because of its majority of low income dwellers as well as lack of infrastructure. The main objective here is to identify and characterize this space as well as resulting segregation. Variables as income, space morphology, residential typology and the history of real estate development as well as dweller`s history of life are analysed

Espaço público e sociabilidade urbana: apropriações e significados dos espaços públicos na cidade contemporânea

Study public space is studying the city and its dynamics through a representation point. The changes that are observed in these spaces and in the relations established there, or with it, are related to changes that occurred in the city as a whole, in the urban way of living. Study public space allied to urban sociability permits an even better focus on this relation between people in these spaces and with the spaces and in the consequences and fragile aspects this relation can impose to people and cities. This work is aimed towards this relation between public space and urban sociability. Through a conceptual/theoretical discussion aims, specifically, comprehend how to establish and what is the relation between urban space and urban sociability (appropriation/perception of place, tendencies of seclusion), from an isolated analysis of each one of these themes in the contemporaneous city. The Brazilian public space has peculiar characteristics, arising from its historical process of construction, also influenced by the public sphere fragile construction that permeates it, as well as more recent variables such as the sensation of insecurity and commodification of these places. The urban sociability influences and is influenced along all this process of significance and reframing of the public space. The conceptual discussion about each isolate variable provides the necessary coverage for discussion and analysis of the relation between them and the consequence of this relation in the city, such as the notation of relevant experiences of this process of revaluation of the public space. The hereby search is not through a path to reestablish the relation as it already existed, but also for an understanding of the dynamic as is established today and for existing possibilities for maintenance and appreciation of the relation between people and the city by believing in its importance to urban life

A produção do mobiliário urbano nos espaços públicos :o desenho do mobiliário urbano nos projetos de reordenamento das orlas do Rio Grande do Norte

This work aims to analyze and evaluate the Urban furniture designed to public areas according to the Revitalization planning for Rio Grande do Norte coastland, defining visual relations among urban elements in the landscape of revitalized public urban areas with cultural, paisagistic and touristic values and the design process used for developing urban furniture to those areas, observing the incoming consequences use to that process in a specific urban context which alters use, functions, cultural images as well as social values attributed to each particular place. Environmental perceptions, legibility of local cultural references and their representation through the design of urban elements, act in a positive or negative manner over the inhabitants cognition process of some particular revitalized area, determining new use and attributions to those areas. Designs for coastal urban interventions try excessively to standardize technical media, construction materials and planning configurations, creating artificial sceneries that segregates users, imposing new structures and usage, generating, consequently, the so called non-places and burlesque regionalism. The research is divided into 4 chapters: 1) Theoretical support (Industrial design; Urban furniture; Public urban spaces; Urban image and environmental perception; Urban occupation and interventions in coastland areas); 2) Methodological procedures and data collection; 3) Analysis of Rio Grande do Norte coastal areas and their urban interventions; 4) Final considerations and Industrial Design contributions to the subject