LLM – Homes for the biggest number: Lisbon, Luanda, Macao
The research aims to survey, catalogue and contextualize housing projects in Lisbon, Luanda and Macao, built between the 1960s and the 1980s, which stood out for large scale occupation and high number of people housed. It is intended to identify the existing housing and urban models and to map the changes after 40 years of use in order to understand how to adapt to current conditions (urban and social) and to support its future.
Methodology: Initially it begins with a detailed description and historical process, creating records of inventory, referenced to the Geographic Information System, and the redrawing of projects (for comparative analyses of the urban design and of the housing cell unit). It follows a visit to the complexes to verify its conservation state, experiencing the urban situation and describing the profile evolution of current populations. Questionnaires will be released for occupation and social satisfaction reporting (district/dwelling). Qualitative interviews to deep-rooted groups (social and cultural groups of belonging) will allow evaluating the integration in the city.
The visits will be recorded on video for “future memory” and a documentary (three 30 minutes short-films) will be produced. In the last year, workshops will be implemented with the communities, involving architects, students, residents and local institutions, proposing architectural interventions based on historical and social analysis and in the Portuguese tradition of participatory architecture.
ISCTE-IUL
IHRU (PT)
Team
Bruno Macedo Ferreira
Researcher
Débora Félix
Researcher
Hugo Coelho
Researcher
Isabel Guerra
Researcher
João Vieira
Researcher
Jorge Figueira
Researcher
José Luís Saldanha
Researcher
Juliana Guedes
Researcher
Luís Urbano
Researcher
Rogério Vieira de Almeida
Researcher
Rui Leão
Researcher
Sandra Marques Pereira
Researcher
Results
BOOK
Milheiro, Ana Vaz (coord., 2015). Optimistic Suburbia – The Students’ Perspective, Lisboa: FCT/DINÂMIA’CET – ISCTE-IUL
ARTICLES
Pereira, Sandra Marques (2017). “Mass housing in Lisbon: sometimes it works”, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment Vol. 32, No. 3 (September), pp. 513-532
BOOK CHAPTERS
Milheiro, Ana Vaz; Almeida, Rogério Vieira (2015). Nova Oeiras: an Ideal for Living – a middle class ideal before the large housing complexes, in Fernandes, José Manuel; Janeiro, Maria de Lurdes. Nova Oeiras Book. Oeiras: Câmara Municipal de Oeiras / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, p.110-141; Documentation for the application for UNESCO World Heritage of the Nova Oeiras Residential Neighbourhood, Oeiras Municipality, Portugal;
Milheiro, Ana Vaz; Fiúza, Filipa; Almeida, Rogério V.; Félix, Débora (2015). “Radieuse Peripheries: A comparative study on middle-class housing in Luanda, Lisbon and Macao”, in Middle-Class Housing in Perspective From Post-War construction to Post-millennial Urban Landscape, Bern: Peter Lang Publishers, p. 211-240;
Milheiro, Ana Vaz; Fiúza, Filipa (2015). “The Prenda District in Luanda: building over the colonial city”, in Silva, Carlos Nunes (ed.), Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries. Surrey: Ashgate, p. 93-100;
CONFERENCES
International Conference Optimistic Suburbia – Large housing complexes for the middle-class beyond Europe was held (ISCTE-IUL, 20-22 May), with a call for papers to 6 sessions chaired by research team members, where 46 works were presented by researchers from 23 different national and foreign institutions; there were five international keynote speakers. https://optimisticsuburbia.wixsite.com/ingles/conference
(2015) International Conference Optimistic Suburbia – Large housing complexes for the middle class beyond Europe, ISCTE, Lisbon, 20-22 May (within the research Project LLM Homes for the biggest number … PTDC/ATP-AQI/3707/2012)
WORKSHOPS
Portela: Histórias, Vivências e Perspectivas de Futuro (16 October 2015), was coordinated by researcher Sandra Marques Pereira. The session started with the presentation of the research results by IR Ana Vaz Milheiro and researcher Bruno Macedo Ferreira, followed by the presentation of the sociological research results by Sandra Marques Pereira. In the end, a debate was held with the community with the purpose of assessing the reception of the results of the questionnaires, dealing with the hopes of current residents and inquiring the possible answers of the architectural form to their expectations; most of these concerns lie in the lack of response to the elderly, both architectural (inexistence of rest homes) and cultural and recreational (lack of this kind of activities).
A Evoluir Luanda (Developing Luanda), IIª Jornada Técnico Científica da Faculdade de Engenharias – Universidade Técnica de Angola – UTANGA, Luanda, 21-22 October 2015: the basis for this workshop was a fictional story about Prenda Neighbourhood. The students were asked to choose any area of Luanda to make their proposals; the main idea was to work with the past (historical research), with the present (survey of the existing) and with the future (architectural proposal), together with their visions and emotions on the city;
International Conference Optimistic Suburbia – Large housing complexes for the middle-class beyond Europe Workshops (18-22 May 2015) organized by the researcher Mónica Pacheco, through an international call for workshops. The students were able to choose between eight different work proposals, from performances to more conventional approaches, presented by 16 tutors from nine different institutions (most of them international). All the workshops were related to Portela, and two of them also studied the other two case-studies (Luanda and Macao). More information can be consulted in: http://optimisticsuburbia.wix.com/portuguese#!workshop/cfcb
VIDEOS
“Middle Class Housing – The Portela Development”. Short-film regarding the Portuguese case study was produced within the scope of the OIKONET Workshop Living Patterns in Mass Housing in Europe, held in Lisbon between 14 and 15 July 2014. The film was coordinated by the IR, with a script by Bruno Macedo Ferreira, film edition by João Cardim and content research by Bruno Macedo Ferreira, Débora Félix, Filipa Fiúza and João Cardim. Available online through the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2LLhFsfr-4
“Bloco de Habitações para Realojamento promovido pela STDM”. Short-film regarding the Macanese case study was coordinated by Ana Vaz Milheiro and based on the article “Optimistic Suburbia, building an heritage”, published in Joelho no. 6, with film edition by researcher Alexandra Areia. Available online through the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS4EK3Gtoxk
“Bairro Prenda”. Short-film regarding the Angolan case study was coordinated by Ana Vaz Milheiro and based on the article “Optimistic Suburbia, building an heritage”, published in Joelho no. 6, with film edition by researcher Alexandra Areia. Available online through the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imFBCwp6vnM
MISSIONS
Macau, September 2014
Angola, November 2014
Angola, July 2015
MASTERS THESIS
Andrade, Yara (2016). As transformações urbanas e o papel das grandes infra-estruturas – polos industriais na evolução da cidade de Luanda. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/13114
Carreira, Maria (2016). A cidade nova de Santo André. Uma utopia urbana na Primavera Marcelista. Sines – indústria e estrutura portuária. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Dissertação de mestrado. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/13093
Fernandes, Rui (2014). Passagem ou a Meio do Caminho – Desenvolvimento Urbano e Habitação na Macau Pós-Transferência de Soberania. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/8771
Gama, Henrique (2013). Ser arquitecto, urbanista: urbanista arquitecto: a essência de o ser. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/7120
Gaudêncio, Ana (2014). “Metrópole Clandestina”. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/8744
Martinho, Leandro (2013). Pancho Guedes: o processo de projeto em arquitetura enquanto expressão artística. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/7941
Miguel, Isadora (2014). Portela, entre o projetado e o construído: estudo das alterações introduzidas pelos construtores aos projetos do arquiteto. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/8792
Pommrenke, Maria (2013). Construir a paisagem lisboeta e luandense: a obra do arquitecto Manolo Potier. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/15731
Ribeiro, Telma (2014). Da “barraca” à casa e da casa à cidade: o programa especial de realojamento em Lisboa (casos de estudo). Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/8808
Rodrigues, Ana (2014). Arquitectura ou revolução: learning from the satellite a expansão territorial através de aterro: o caso de Macau. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/8745
Serrazina, Beatriz (2016). Utopia moderna em África: o bairro prenda na Luanda do futuro. Dissertação de Mestrado em Arquitectura, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11686
Silva, Ana (2015). Na espacialidade dos Casinos de Macau – Experiência, Morfologia e Topologia. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Departamento de Arquitectura da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra. https://hdl.handle.net/10316/30064
Ullmann, Marianne (2015). Residensity – Leituras sobre o habitar de Macau. Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura, Departamento de Arquitectura da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra. https://hdl.handle.net/10316/29928
