Ruivo, C; Varoudis, T; (2017) Rethinking domestic and neighbourhood space: An analysis of social housing in the Portuguese post-revolutionary period. In: Proceedings of the 11th Space Syntax Symposium. (pp. 20.1-20.12). Space Syntax Symposium: Lisbon, Portugal.

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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 latter solution gained disciplinary and media attention at the time, and remained an important reference to contemporary approaches to participatory design processes. However, marked by projects of little urban impact and of mainly punctual action, it has proved unable to respond to real housing needs, comparatively encompassing a very small percentage of the population. It has gained exceptional relevance in the historiography of Portuguese architecture due to its participatory nature, and the resulting typologies have remained, in opposition to the largescale top-down projects directly promoted by the state, connected to democratic values in the dominant architectural discourse. In order to challenge this notion, syntactic analysis' tools are used to examine six neighbourhoods from the post-revolutionary period in Porto, Portugal, representative of the set of built projects in each group. The paper examines the relation between type of housing development and design process with the configurational relations between functional spaces of the produced typologies, both at the domestic and neighbourhood levels.

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