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A Água é essencial para a vida urbana, sem ela não há cidade, sendo, por vezes, considerada um mero meio para os homens na organização do urbano. É um dos principais elementos responsáveis pela topografia do meio natural, assim como pela criação de diferentes habitats geradores de vida.
Como parte da Natureza tornou-se a verdadeira essência, tendo sido canalizada para a vida humana, e esse processo de ligação do Homem com a Natureza pode ser considerado como ponto de partida da Civilização. A água actua segundo as suas necessidades, tanto de abrigo como de emoção, e, perante a criação de espaços, aceita as leis da natureza como regras para criar Arquitectura.
Desde a Antiguidade, a água permaneceu crucial para a existência das origens, e foi revestida de forte conteúdo simbólico, presente nos mitos e lendas de diversas culturas. Do mundo antigo, desembocamos no mundo moderno, secularizado e pluralista, baseado na Ciência e no tecnicismo. Contudo, a água foi e continua a ser geradora de mitos, crenças e doenças, fonte de energia e abastecimento, meio de transporte, de lazer e alimento. A água é protagonista dos espaços criados pelo Homem.
Neste contexto temático, esta dissertação remete para uma análise profunda desse líquido natural, que denominamos Água. Desde as suas características, propriedades, filosofia e simbologia, passando pela História que esta matéria-prima provocou no nascimento de cidades, como um elemento compositor e orquestrador de espaços arquitectónicos, constata-se que a água, elemento que cria formas, passa a ser material criativo e, portanto, motor de processos projectuais e urbanísticos.
Esta dissertação especula sobre o que é observado, estudando os espaços e lugares criados na Covilhã, no âmbito de compreender como se canaliza a energia existente na água para criar arquitectura e urbanismo através do líquido e das suas formas.
Procura-se desenvolver uma proposta de requalificação respeitado a linha de água e entendendo a sua utilidade e suas qualidades espaciais, poéticas e de fruição, valorizando a imagem urbana.
Water is essential to urban life, there is no city without water, being, sometimes, treated as an access for men in the organization of the urban plan. It is a key element of the topography of the natural environment, as well as the creator of different habitats that generates life. As part of Nature it became the true essence, channeled to human life, and this process of connection between Man and Nature can be considered as a starting point of the Civilization. It acts according to its needs, both for shelter and for emotion and through the creation of spaces it accepts the laws of nature as rules for creating Architecture. Since ancient times, water remained essential to the existence of sources, the water was coated with a high symbolic content present in the myths and legends of many cultures, from the ancient world into the secular and pluralistic modern world, based on science and technicalities. Although, the water was and still remains a generator of myths, beliefs and illnesses, power and supply, means of transport, food and leisure. Water is the protagonist of the man made spaces. In this thematic context, this paper refers to a comprehensive analysis of this Nature fluid we know as water. This is aimed from its characteristics, properties and symbolism, throughout the history that this raw material resulted in, the birth of cities, as a composer and orchestrator element of architectural spaces. It appears that water, the element that creates forms, becomes creative material and therefore projectual process engine. This essay speculates on what is observed by studying the spaces and places created in Covilhã, in the context of understanding how to channel the energy from the water to create architecture and urbanism through the liquid and its ways. It seeks to develop a proposal for reclassification followed the water line and understand their usefulness and their spatial qualities, and poetic enjoyment, enhancing the urban image.
Water is essential to urban life, there is no city without water, being, sometimes, treated as an access for men in the organization of the urban plan. It is a key element of the topography of the natural environment, as well as the creator of different habitats that generates life. As part of Nature it became the true essence, channeled to human life, and this process of connection between Man and Nature can be considered as a starting point of the Civilization. It acts according to its needs, both for shelter and for emotion and through the creation of spaces it accepts the laws of nature as rules for creating Architecture. Since ancient times, water remained essential to the existence of sources, the water was coated with a high symbolic content present in the myths and legends of many cultures, from the ancient world into the secular and pluralistic modern world, based on science and technicalities. Although, the water was and still remains a generator of myths, beliefs and illnesses, power and supply, means of transport, food and leisure. Water is the protagonist of the man made spaces. In this thematic context, this paper refers to a comprehensive analysis of this Nature fluid we know as water. This is aimed from its characteristics, properties and symbolism, throughout the history that this raw material resulted in, the birth of cities, as a composer and orchestrator element of architectural spaces. It appears that water, the element that creates forms, becomes creative material and therefore projectual process engine. This essay speculates on what is observed by studying the spaces and places created in Covilhã, in the context of understanding how to channel the energy from the water to create architecture and urbanism through the liquid and its ways. It seeks to develop a proposal for reclassification followed the water line and understand their usefulness and their spatial qualities, and poetic enjoyment, enhancing the urban image.
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Água Urbanismo