Revitalising Through Interaction: Using community values to turn vacant heritage in a place for intergenerational interactions

This project focusses on the relationship between nature in cities and the values conveyed by local communities in Faro, Portugal. With economic and health crises leading to increased stress and depression, society has begun paying more attention to mental and physical health, and the role of nature in cities has become increasingly important....

Values and attachment: Social and ecological spaces in value-based redesign of former milling factory, Estação, Faro

This graduation project is the heritage design of an abandoned factory in the Estação neighborhood, Faro, Portugal. The aim of MSc3 Graduation Studio: Revitalising Heritage is to develop and test values-based models for redesigning built heritage. There are three main phases: cultural significance survey, values-based redesign, and heritage...

An architecture of possibilities: Co-creation design as a tool for embracing well-being in creating alternative futures for vacant heritage in Estação neighborhood, Faro, Portugal

The role of nature in historic cities has been a growing debate in creating healthier environments as society pays more attention to mental and physical health. The relationship between nature, city, and community is growing in understanding but is still limited in practice. Recent research evidence that the high cultural significance of green...

Capture Nature: Exploring emotional attachment towards nature with a photographic walking tour for a nature-inclusive redesign of two former warehouses in Faro, Portugal

This graduation project explores emotional attachment toward nature in the city of Faro, Portugal. A photographic walking tour had been used as a participatory method to identify values and attributes that are related to the community’s emotional attachment. The research resulted in a values-based redesign of two former warehouses at the...

Rethinking the ruin: Redesigning based on values conveyed by locals and tourists in Faro, Portugal

This paper describes the method followed in the intervention project<br/>following the analysis of façade attributes and value in the neighborhood of Sao<br/>Francisco in Faro, Portugal. It is composed of three main parts: Research results,<br/>Intervention bases and architectonic project. Following the work described on<br/>the research (Herck,...

A Participatory Design Game for Social Housing Configuration in the Context of Manaus, in Brazil

The emic structure of space heavily depends on the social, cultural, and economic context (Hillier, 1989). Yet, many social housing projects disregard this crucial aspect by standardizing the configuration of space (Sanoff, 2000). To be able to avoid the standardization of configuration and benefit from the cost-efficiency of mass production ...