Academic year

2007/2008

Course

Laboratory of Urban

Curricular year

3º

Teachers

Cidália Ferreira da Silva Vincenzo Riso Ana Lopes

Exercise Title

Interpretation/representation tools – Building a specific outlook

Intervention Location

Área de Silvares, Brito e Ronfe, no concelho de Guimarães

Activity Description

This exercise is based on reflection on areas within the diffused Vale do Ave (Ave river’s valley) territory. This urban model in this territory differs from the traditional model associated with consolidated cities. It becomes necessary to train the eye to recognise the traces and vestiges present in these territories if we are to discover new ways to intervene. Students are provided with a large sample of the Vale do Ave region. The goal is for the student to create an interpretation conforming a specific outlook; this outlook selects the themes and/or elements that are seen as structural for the territory and resulting landscape due to their recurrent presence all over the sample. The theme behind the key concept will be determined through the selection of a photo that the group feels illustrative of their disquiet in view of the area studied; in addition, they must associate said photo to a recognisable theme and/or element.

Transmutation

Fernando Ferreira, Daniel Duarte Pereira, Daniel Macedo e Sara Ferreira

Photography that catalyzed the theme: Transmutations.

Study of the case study area before the construction of the A11 highway (Braga-Guimarães)

Study of the case study area after the construction of the A11 highway (Braga-Guimarães)

Transmutation at Veiga de Creixomil

Transmutation at Nó de Silvares

Transmutation at the Ave River

Transmutation at the Ave River. Before and After sections

Transmutation at the forest area. Sections

act-20072008-lu-exe4-grupo_g-img-01 Photography that catalyzed the theme: Transmutations
Study of the case study area before the construction of the A11 highway (Braga-Guimarães) Study of the case study area after the construction of the A11 highway (Braga-Guimarães)
Transmutation at Veiga de Creixomil Transmutation at Nó de Silvares
Transmutation at the Ave River Transmutation at the Ave River. Before and After sections
Transmutation at the forest area. Sections