Faculdade de Arquitectura

This text concerns three kinds of use of Film´s Fictional Space as a Storyteller will be displayed in analyzing three paradigmatic movies: Shining as the use of "Premonitory Space", Once upon a time in the west as "Ruler Defining Space" and Inception in the study of "Space as a Mind Extension".
Premonitory Space: anticipation of events and actions of plot's fiction, by means of emotions induced by subtle and converging use of signifiers created by combined use of syntax in composition, motion, light, color, space, camera use, sound or action.
Ruler Defining Space: the use o space as a fictional defining characters and plot potential place and actions in it, creating strength lines, boundaries of "material" and "visual" space, as stage for action support and constrain, selector and ruler of characters moves, positions and actions, sense, coherence and credibility tool for action and plot. Fiction space and place construction can determine all the logic, display, feels and sense of developing plot's action and drama.
Space as a Mind Extension: the space that talks about Events happening in the Self. Space can echo inner life and character events, reacting to inner characters thoughts, feelings and fates. Behaving this way, space portrays itself signs of the events and inner life related to central characters of the fictions and plot.

Known as one of the most important families of architects and stage designers of the eighteenth century, the Galli Bibiena’s worked for the main European courts, from Lisbon to St. Petersburg, where they earned international notoriety and recognition. Based on the research performed by us in the last decade on the work realized by the Galli Bibiena family, and particularly in the recent research carried out for the Master thesis effects, this paper aims to present some of the results obtained under the subject of the theatrical architecture developed by Francesco and Giovanni Carlo Sicinio, respectively, father and son. In particular, we aim to share out a series of analyses made between the Nancy Royal Op- era House (1709) and the Lisbon Royal Opera House of Tagus (1755), in order to deepen the current knowledge of these two buildings and highlight some of its main features. Namely, regarding the use of the proportion and a set of elements in the formation of a specific language, that (may) confine to a common morphological identity. To conclude, we will demonstrate the existence of a formal and stylistic identity, which was used among the various members of this family, in particular in professional and academic level relating father and son.

In Portugal, the coastline’s human occupation – whose urban expression, located in a land-sea transition, is designated as coastal area – derives from its ecological condition (considering ecology in its broader sense), that is, from the interdependence between the human need for a cultural and biological appropriation of available resources, and those resources’ suitability to such demands. From a sustainable viewpoint, the mode of production and products’ consumption in a given economic context must be considered: what was initially exploited in an integrated way, was later submitted to mechanical processes, whose exploitation rhythm surpassed its local scope. Through a categorization process of Setúbal case study’s urban occupation, expressed in a certain Sea Architecture, this paper intends to describe an interpretation methodology of the coastal areas, that considers its ecological condition.

In Portugal, the traditional urban occupation of coastal areas (as a sea-land transition, with a high ecological dynamic and complex ecosystem) was confined to the biophysical suitable conditions (hydrography, soil and climate) based on sea resources subsistence, complemented by land exploitation. In this context, the Sea Architectures, as a cultural expression of its potential, respected those conditions by applying traditional materials and construction techniques available in the region. However, an urban occupation model based on industrial production methods became later unsuited to the natural transformation processes of the landscape. Since then, the memories of the local communities were disconnected from their temporal borders and spatial experience, which resulted in a progressive uprooting due to a loss of affection, making the coastal areas’ preservation pointless.

In this sense, the present communication proposal intends to present an alternative analysis and diagnosis methodology of coastal areas, according to an integrated interpretation of their landscape. It consists in a morpho-typological characterization of its biophysical functional systems and human occupation processes, with an approach simultaneously morphological (related to the physical) and typological (related to the symbolical). A set of methodological steps will be described, comparing different sources of information and scales of observation, to determine the main territorial specificities and local culture framework, ensuring the natural transformation processes of the landscape. This methodology allows us to understand the relationship between the human needs and biophysical conditions, by which we’ll be able to develop a suitable preservation strategy of coastal areas, recovering their Sea Architectures.

In Portugal, the coastline's human occupation-whose urban expression, located in a land-sea transition, is designated as coastal area-derives from its ecological condition (considering ecology in its broader sense), that is, from the interdependence between the human need for a cultural and biological appropriation of available resources, and those resources' suitability to such demands. From a sustainable viewpoint, the mode of production and products' consumption in a given economic context must be considered: what was initially exploited in an integrated way, was later submitted to mechanical processes, whose exploitation rhythm surpassed its local scope. Through a categorization process of Setúbal case study's urban occupation, expressed in a certain Sea Architecture, this paper intends to describe an interpretation methodology of the coastal areas, that considers its ecological condition.