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Underground contemporary buildings: Portugal and Turkey
Using nature itself - on prehistoric caves - or as inspiration for their artificial constructions, man always looked for underground earth shelters. The North of Portugal is characterized by a disperse territory occupancy, what is problematic due to infra-structures and transport environmental costs. This reality has diverse causes: accented topography, division of soil due to multiple transmissions of property, an intensive labor and delocalized small industry. The generalized access to individual transport in the last 30 years accentuated this phenomenon, that is now irreversible, but economic paradigm is now changing drastically, with small industries closing and increasing unemployment, what is now impelling the return to individual means of subsistence, such as private poultry. But a lot of soil surface is now blocked for agriculture; due to the existence of small disperse buildings that pop up on territory, limiting accesses and insulation to potentially productive soils. This is especially critical for South oriented slopes, more adequate for agriculture. Increase density is now utopia for this region, so a strategy proposed for dealing with this reality can be to integrate new constructions on terrace slopes, leaving the housing immediate vicinity soil and even roof more easily available for agriculture or at least reducing visual impact of buildings on landscape. The advantages and disadvantages of underground buildings are discussed, with some examples comparing Cappadocia in Turkey with Portugal. Portuguese underground contemporary housing buildings are presented as case studies. ; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)
Underground contemporary buildings: Portugal and Turkey
Using nature itself - on prehistoric caves - or as inspiration for their artificial constructions, man always looked for underground earth shelters. The North of Portugal is characterized by a disperse territory occupancy, what is problematic due to infra-structures and transport environmental costs. This reality has diverse causes: accented topography, division of soil due to multiple transmissions of property, an intensive labor and delocalized small industry. The generalized access to individual transport in the last 30 years accentuated this phenomenon, that is now irreversible, but economic paradigm is now changing drastically, with small industries closing and increasing unemployment, what is now impelling the return to individual means of subsistence, such as private poultry. But a lot of soil surface is now blocked for agriculture; due to the existence of small disperse buildings that pop up on territory, limiting accesses and insulation to potentially productive soils. This is especially critical for South oriented slopes, more adequate for agriculture. Increase density is now utopia for this region, so a strategy proposed for dealing with this reality can be to integrate new constructions on terrace slopes, leaving the housing immediate vicinity soil and even roof more easily available for agriculture or at least reducing visual impact of buildings on landscape. The advantages and disadvantages of underground buildings are discussed, with some examples comparing Cappadocia in Turkey with Portugal. Portuguese underground contemporary housing buildings are presented as case studies. ; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)
Underground contemporary buildings: Portugal and Turkey
Mendonça, Paulo (author) / Alves, Helena Fernanda Domingues Vaz (author)
2011-01-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
720
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