EMBRYO PROJECTS - URBANISM

2023

HOME[+]CITY

Collective Domesticity. The transition space as a system between home and city
  • Principal Researcher : João Silva Leite
  • Integrated Researchers: Alessia Allegri, Filipa Serpa, Sérgio Fernandes
  • Collaborating Researchers: Pablo Villalonga Munar, Youri Spaninks-Amaro
  • External Researchers: Jorge Spencer, Tiago Mota Saraiva 

FuturALL

Envisioning Future through Co-creation and Design-led Planning in Deprived Urban Communities
  • Principal Researcher : Maria Manuela da Fonte 
  • Integrated Researchers: Cristina Cavaco, João Bento, Pedro Bento
  • Collaborating Researchers: Pablo Costa
  • External Researchers: Susana Oliveira

MetroPoLis

Lisbon and Porto shared metropolis. Sustainable tourism beyond city center
  • Principal Researcher : Rui Florentino
  • Integrated Researchers: Monica Álcindor, Telma Ribeiro
  • Collaborating Researchers: David Leite Viana, Isabel Vaz Freitas, Maria Goreti Sousa
  • External Researchers: Patrícia Canelas, Jorge Ricardo Pinto, José Pedro Tenreiro

CLIMUS

Climate and Community-Led Initiatives for Sustainable Urban Settlement. A Collaborative Study in Palmarejo, Praia, Cabo Verde
  • Principal Researcher : Cristina Delgado Henriques
  • Integrated Researchers: Maria Matos Silva, Victor Ferreira, David Vale 
  • External Researchers: Judite Medina do Nascimento, António Lopes, Marcelo Fragoso, Ezequiel Correia 

CONCRETE VACA[c]TIONS

New Tourism Paradigms Assessing the Built Coastline
  • Principal Researcher : Stefanos Antoniadis
  • Integrated Researchers: João Silva Leite, José Miguel Silva, João Rafael Santos
  • Collaborating Researchers: Rui Justo
  • External Researchers: Maria Rita Pais, Luigi Stendardo, Angelo Bertolazzi, Fabiano Micocci 

ARCH/JAA

JOÃO ANTÓNIO DE AGUIAR, 25 YEARS OF URBAN DESIGN IN SANTARÉM
  • Principal Researcher : Sérgio Padrão
  • Integrated Researchers: Joana Bastos Malheiro, Luís Rosmaninho
  • External Researchers: Filipe Carmo

Urban Margins in the AML

Diversity of situations of urban margins in Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Legal and urban planning instruments for its reconversion and upgrading
  • Principal Researcher: Isabel Ortins de Simões Raposo 
  • Integrated Researchers: José Luís Crespo, Andréa Figueiredo Arruda, Francesco Biagi, Afonso Nuno Henrique Martins 
  • Collaborating Researchers: Rosa Arma, Debora Cavalcanti, Manuela Mendes, Vanessa Melo 
  • External Researchers: Béatrice Hibou, Teresa Craveiro, Helena Roseta, Alex Magalhães. Manoel Ribeiro

UrbClimaAdapt_old&new lessons

Slum upgrading and Incremental Housing in Practice learning from Le Corbusier&Chandigarh, Alvaro Siza&Malagueira, towards an 
architecture and urbanism for climate change (Portugal and India cases)
  • Principal Researcherl : Afonso Nuno Henrique Martins
  • Integrated Researchers: Miguel Santiago, Rita Ochoa, Pedro Marques Abreu
  • Collaborating Researchers: José Nuno Beirão, Isabel Raposo
  • External Researchers: Harsimran Kaur, Krishana Dhote, Rosa Marina Afonso, João Garcia, Parshant Rehal, Anshul Purya.

ID_TP

Interface Design _ theory and practice
  • Principal Researcher : Carlos Jorge Henriques Ferreira
  • Integrated Researchers: Jorge Mealha, Daniel Jesus
  • Collaborating Researcherss: Jorge Nicolau, Arménio Lopes
  • External Researchers: Maria Santos, Joana Pereira, Catarina Mauricio

MemOs

Memory and the Facts: Figures and Personalities in the building of Lisbon Metropolitan Area. 
Collection and interpretation of personal interviews
  • Principal Researcher: João Rafael Santos
  • Integrated Researchers: Maria Manuela da Fonte, Carlos Dias Coelho
  • Collaborating Researchers: Pedro George

2021

INTERMITTENT LX

Temporary Uses and Sharing Practices in the Adaptive City. From Experience to Prospective.
  • Principal Researcher: Alessia Allegri
  • Integrated Researchers: Rita Ochoa, João Pedro Costa, Andreia Garcia
  • External Researchers: André Barata (Praxis/UBI), Gonçalo Antunes (CICS/NOVA), Inês Marques (COW/COFAC/ULHT), João Seixas (CICS/NOVA), Maria João Matos (DGT), Sandra Marques Pereira (DINÂMIA’CET/ISCTE-IUL)

[ URBAN ETHIC ]

Rethinking the Design of Social and Affordable Housing and Habitat, on the path of the New European Bauhaus.
  • Principal Researcher : Filipa Serpa
  • Integrated Researchers: João Rafael Santos, Luis Sanchez Carvalho, Maria Manuela Afonso da Fonte, Pedro Rodrigues
  • External Researchers: António Lobato Santos

REHABIT:CONVENTLX

Rehabit Convents in Lisbon. Built heritage, adaptive reuse and urban form transformation.
  • Principal Researcher : José Miguel Silva
  • Integrated Researchers: José Aguiar, Filipa Serpa, João Silva Leite
  • Collaborating Researchers: Ana Amado
  • External Researchers: Xaveir Monteys, de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

[ENTRA]MAR

Sea intertwined city. Interpretation and Design of Portuguese Seashore Streets vulnerable to sea level rise.
  • Principal Researcher : Sérgio Barreiros Proença
  • Integrated Researchers: Carlos Dias Coelho, Sérgio Padrão Fernandes, Maria Matos Silva
  • Collaborating Researchers: Francesca Dal Cin
  • External Researchers: Carlos Antunes (FCiências.ID/IDL), Luís Dias (FCiências.ID/cE3c)
  • Consultores: Francesco Musco (IUAVenezia), Han Meyer (TUDelft), Miriam García (LandLab, Barcelona)

CIAUD_ENGAGE. METROPOLITAN AREA OF LISBON

Cities, Informality, Architecture, Urban Design and Engagement; investigating biological hazards, climate change and health adaptation strategies within vulnerable communities in Lisbon (and Bhopal)
  • Principal Researcher : Afonso Nuno Henrique Martins
  • Integrated Researchers: Jorge Manuel Nicolau, Isabel Raposo
  • Collaborating Researchers: Manuela Mendes
  • External Researchers: Manuel Carlos Gameiro da Silva (U.Coimbra, indoor air quality specialist), José Carlos Avelãs Nunes, Giovanni Allegreti, Rosa Marina Afonso, Antonio Maio, Dominika Gorecka, Carlos Diogo Alves, Anshul Puriya (India)