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António Lopes Cardoso


Graduated at FAUP (Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto) with a Master's degree in Architecture
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05     From the Refuge to Home
2021
Porto, Portugal
        FAUP























A project that (re)imagines architecture for emergency contexts, exploring the transition between temporary shelter and communal living. It proposes a reinterpretation of traditional refugee camp models, focusing on the permanence of living spaces and the creation of social and collective areas essential for the cohesion of emerging communities. Through modular studies — both orthogonal and radial — the project investigates how spatial organisation can foster identity and belonging, even in situations of crisis.


“Observing the (re) equation”

Several interpretations, despite being different manage to answer the questions raised - looking for shelter, creating a community and the human response to inhuman problems.
Always valuing the same issues in all modules and emphasising life in community.


Exploration of a traditional model of a shelter camp, (re) equating it according to a perspective that
focuses on the permanence of living spaces and the promotion of social spaces, effective in the ability
to maintain the ideals and beliefs of a community. Because they rarely exist in these contexts, they
interrupt the monotonous discourse of the ‘city of repetition’ which gives way to their idiosyncrasies.

Configuration of joint nuclei of living spaces and social spaces in constant movement: they raise rotations that value the continuous daily experience in which physical change does not change the morphology of the nuclei, but promotes new social realities; and enlargements related to the need to create common spaces (squares and streets) for a community in demographic growth. The mutation of a nuclei establishes an exception that does not change the rule in reading the urban mesh.