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Resumen de Humanizing old industrial areas: a rehabilitation case study

Filipa Almeida, Ana Lídia Virtudes, Ana María Tavares Ferreira Martins

  • The subject of this article is the case study of an old industrial area in decline in the city of Covilhã. It was losing its �raison d�être� (functional, social and spatial) and was becoming urban space, void of meaning in the urban landscape and in the human sense.

    The city can be understood as a text, so the urban voids are missing phrases or words unadjusted to the global text. In this sense this old industrial area, which is an important part of the urban voids of Covilhã, should not be assessed individually since it is with its clarification that the city, as a global text, gains consistency and a new dimension. On one hand, that is rethinking and reconsidering the city as a whole. On the other hand, that is the planner�s and the architect�s role to reintegrate and interpret its unbounded potential and its place not only on the global text, which is the city, but also in the urban cultural context.

    The city is not only a set of urban elements but especially a set of relations between them and of human memories. The opportunity to study this case produces expectations about its human sense of reintegration in the city of 21st Century:

    - What would the urban design be like, taking into account the meaning of the form of city elements, an innovative way of reintegration of old industrial areas? - How would urban design play a key role in reorganising the urban structure and in what way would it combine practical functions and the city elements? - How can architecture and urban design reintegrate the human function in this area? In the global context, these often represent the last chance for spatial and social reconsideration, reintegration, rehabilitation and planning the city preserving the memories of the places.


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