BIP workshop INVISIBLE CITY CASCAIS

"Social space persists in the centers of historic cities, but today they are continually devastated by the accelerated phenomenon of gentrification, especially in the AC era, through the mass touristification of its centers. Mitigating this phenomenon means recovering the "invisible" places of the dense city, offering it, among its rubble and ruins, vacant buildings, vacant plots, gutted interiors, urban ruptures and areas "forgotten" by tourists, new "houses", houses to live in, where people sleep and eat, but also houses where culture, activities and interests in city politics meet.

Based on this statement, on the imaginative possibilities of its probable invisibilities, the students are asked to look at the modern-historical centre of Cascais, namely the basin of Ribeira das Vinhas, and to raise possibilities for intervention that relaunch the relationship between the space of housing and the social space of the city. It's not about social housing, it's about inhabiting the social space of the city, and by doing so, to make it visible."

Organization: 

Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa

CIAUD – Research Center in Architecture, Urbanism and Design, FA.ULisboa

stemmed from the INVISIBLE CITY, embryo research project

Scientific Coordination - Pedro Belo Ravara

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