PORTO, AVENIDA DA PONTE. Complexity and transformation

Abstract

The present article explores the development of a work methodology that analyzes the architectural project, supported by reading the drawing and the circumstances that are part of the project. “Avenida da Ponte”, in Porto, is an urban theme that has given rise to significant and prolonged reflections on its transformations in the city. As a result of urban operations throughout the 20th century and the object of dozens of projects developed for this area, it constitutes a problem whose analysis is of the utmost relevance. The proposed methodology seeks to understand the impact of the demolitions on the town and the proposals developed, namely in the articulation space between the architectural project and the site. From the collected data, key points will be presented for the formulation of an intervention idea, contributing to the debate, once again, and the need to solve this fragment in the city.

Keywords: method, Avenida da Ponte, architecture design as research