HOUSING OF ‘ANCIEN RÉGIME’ IN SANTANA’S HILL: TYPES AND WAYS OF LIVING
Abstract
This paper seeks the understanding of Lisbon’s housing models of 16-
18 centuries through the analysis of a determined area. th
Seeing that housing buildings constructed before mid-18th century are
currently the ones most immediate risk of cease, was this study intent to register and analyse examples inside this timeline. While focused on common housing, all housing buildings are considered due to the inseparability of common and erudite housing in Lisbon’s organic historical urban tissue. Five types of building of plurifamiliar common housing were identified, regarding their functional distribution of dwellings and vertical accesses. These regular features can help to drawn a strategy of adaptation to modern living standards during a process of rehabilitation, a crucial point considering this work’s goal in suggesting ways of living today in spaces build for the past, while keeping their essential character.
Methods
The process of investigation was divided in three components: theoric
research, field work and analysis through comparison. Field work begun with consultation of archive processes in Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa, in order to list an adequate number of study cases based on the extent of information available. Afterwards building surveys were in order, with direct observation of dwellings and access layouts.
The information gathered through these sources was analysed by com-
parison of possible reconstitutions of the original state of edifices. Housing of ‘Ancien Régime’ in Santana’s Hill
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