Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

URBANISMO - 2025/2026

4º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Patrícia Diogo
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Patrícia Diogo

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Investigate Architecture and Urbanism and their representation of universal value from a historical point of view and understand urban evolution as a ring of commitment between sustainable, inclusive and intelligent development, in a line of reflection where different levels of analysis of urban space stand out, highlighting sustainability and integrated urban regeneration in the selected intervention area: Bairro Piscatório de Angeiras in Matosinhos.

Specific Aims/Objectives

The Urbanism curricular unit proposes an approach to the reality of our cities, using knowledge and mental and cultural instruments based on a temporal exercise in which research, design and application are not aligned. We will develop an exercise that aims to structure the identity and quality of the territory of Angeiras in the Municipality of Matosinhos.

Skills to be acquired

Mastery of knowledge and instruments that encompass the different scales of Architecture and Design, as well as the programmatic areas that constitute it. Skills on urban and object intervention, linguistic, morphological and typological qualification of built and unbuilt urban structures, as well as the formal and material organization and implementation of these spaces are fundamental.

Teaching Procedures

Classes will cover examples of consolidated cities and emerging cities, motivating the ability to analyze and consequently debate the issues presented. Students will develop theoretical-practical work allowing them to understand the relationship between theory and practice.

Programme

The Curricular Unit program aims to deepen scientific knowledge about the morphological and functional characteristics of Nuclei and Places that correspond to old fishing and rural settlements, it means analyzing processes of organic growth of primitive nuclei to establish connection between fishing settlements, rural nuclei, urban environment and peri-urban, assuming an instrumental character in the decomposition of the layers that originated the structure of the existing urban form - the genesis of formation, the road layout, the block, the lot and the building - working with the concepts of type of mesh and architectural element of in order to provide information regarding the built structure and establish relationships with other elements of the urban system, considering two phases for this purpose:
Phase 1 - Group Work (until the end of October) - Preparation and objectives:
- Analysis and diagnosis of the territory;
- Characterization of the space. Urban layout - mesh, outdoor spaces for circulation and permanence, infrastructure network;
- Methodological consolidation, analysis criteria and work programming.
- Collection of information and production of cartography with information on the projection of sea level rise in 10, 40, 100 and 150 years.
- PDM Matosinhos.
Phase 2 - Group Work (until Christmas) - Characterization and diagnosis:
- Recognition of the selected territory through SWOT analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats;
- Buildings of a fishing or traditional nature, type of relationship with the activities carried out;
- Highlight the importance of its rehabilitation in terms of use, historical memory and cultural meaning arising from tradition,
- Analysis of the changes and continuances that human settlements undergo over time, applied to new processes of economic development from a perspective of model sustainability.

Evaluation Type

The assessment will be based on attendance, participation and commitment in debates held in classes during privileged contact in the teaching space, in the execution and presentation of work to apply knowledge.
Theoretical/practical work is in accordance with the stated Program.

Teaching Resources

The components of the learning environment to be used will be the aforementioned bibliographic elements.
Existing databases on the internet and computer equipment are essential for accessing online content;

Sustainability Objectives

It is intended that the student is aware of the principles of sustainability and integrated urban regeneration of conflict territories, “making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”, in line with Goal 11 for Development United Nations Sustainable Development.

Keywords

Architecture;
Climate Change;
Project;
Urbanism;
Sustainability;

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography