Catarina Ruivo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Integrated PhD Researcher at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon

Este trabalho procura abordar, com base nos modelos teóricos de Harvey, o impacto das tipologias do alojamento local nas dinâmicas de transformação do tecido urbano do Porto. O grosso da investigação recai sobre a recolha e a análise de dados relativos ao Alojamento Local no Porto, mas parte também da exploração de uma dualidade identificada no dis...

The mass construction of public housing throughout the 20th-century across Europe had a great impact on the way cities grew. The urban and therefore social impact of housing estates has been thoroughly studied both within and outside the field of Space Syntax. However, decades after the first efforts within the field at deconstructing simplistic cl...

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/22143 This dissertation studies a set of public housing estates in Porto developed in the period surrounding the Portuguese revolution, part of which have rarely been examined in architectural research. In doing so, it seeks to provide a global reading of this period that may represent a counterpoint to the criticism l...

How Cultural Patterns Are Reflected On Domestic Space Has Been Vastly Discussed In Space Syntax Literature. The Genotype Analogy Was Developed With The Underlying Notion That The Configurational Properties Of Architectural Function Reflect Patterns Of Use And Activity That Are Culturally Structured. The Paper Will Further Investigate This Question...

Taking advantage of the opportunity to carry out a project of analysis of municipal intervention in the public space of the city of Porto, it was possible to test and disseminate a set of formal and digital methodologies, comparing them with more traditional methodologies.KeywordsPublic spacePedestrianComputer videoMachine learningSpace syntaxAgent...

Formal Methods is a designation that has its origin in the computer sciences, where it is widely used. Due to the increasing importance of computer systems, and their growth in scope and complexity, formal methods are expanding within these disciplines.

This paper explores the role of women’s struggle within residents’ movements in the production and transformation of space in Porto during the PREC (the Portuguese Revolutionary Process of 1974-1976), analysing the spaces where these movements started, the issues they focused on, and how it related and acted within explicit and implicit views of fa...

The main propose of the book is a conttibution to the debate about the application, in the disciplines of Architecture and Urbanism, of new formal methods . new methodological advances based on tools coming from Mathematics; from the geometry to current shape grammars, space syntax, cellular automata or machine - learning for instance, several form...

This paper presents ScavaTools—a set of digital tools integrated into COTS software for architecture and urbanism (A&U). Its scope is on spatial configuration, accessibility, and visibility analysis (SCAVA), correlating different methodologies and underlying theories such as ‘isovists’, ‘space syntax’, ‘visibility graph analysis’ and ‘agent-based a...

The article delves into the potential application of space syntax methodology to landscape architecture. Anticipating the complexity of the landscape architectural design process, the use of 3D space syntax analysis made it possible to better understand the relations between urban space shapes and their functions. The application of an iterative pr...

The paper will focus on research regarding DepthSpace3D: a 3D Space Syntax analysis software. This new digital tool increases the range of possibilities regarding 3D analysis, which seems to have advantages over current 2D analysis. The case study used to test those concepts was the iconic (and controversial) Casa da Música (by Rem Koolhaas, OMA) a...

During the Portuguese post-revolutionary period in the 1970's public housing policies were restructured, resulting in the organization of public housing development in three groups; direct state development, state co-subsidized housing co-operatives and construction of private housing for organized ill-housed populations in the city centre. The lat...