Awakening the city: Reinventing the Pátio da Claridade in Macau

• João Guerreirinho ^[1] ; Margarida Louro ^[2] ; Francisco Oliveira ^[2]
  1. [1] Champalimaud Foundation

     Champalimaud Foundation

     Portugal

     
  2. [2] Universidade de Lisboa

     Universidade de Lisboa

     Socorro, Portugal

     
• Localización: Tradition and Innovation / Mário Say Ming Kong (aut.), Aleksander Józef Olszewski (aut.), Martin Simonson (aut.), Andreia Garcia (aut.), Jorge Nunes (aut.), José Lopes Morgado (aut.), Santi Centineo (aut.), Andrea Iezzi (aut.), Irina Seits (aut.), Taisia S. Paniotova (aut.), Maxim Romanenko (aut.), Valdomiro Ceolin (aut.), Francisco Oliveira (aut.), Margarida Louro (aut.), Carla Chiarantoni (aut.), António Leite (aut.), Denise Gaudiot (aut.), João Pernão (aut.), Laura Martins (aut.), Andre Santos (aut.), Catarina Rosa e Silva de Albuquerque (aut.), Jéssica Costa (aut.), Ljiljana Čavić (aut.), Leonardo Barros (aut.), Maria Luisa Trindade Bestetti (aut.), Mariana Alves da Silva do Nascimento (aut.), Maria Madalena Aguiar da Cunha Matos (aut.), Maria da Luz Sampaio (aut.), Clara Vale (aut.), João B. Menezes de Sequeira (aut.), Artur Renato Ortega (aut.), Silvana Weihermann (aut.), Eduardo Francisco Durao Antunes (aut.), Pedro Miguel Gomes Januario (aut.), Paulo Jorge Garcia Pereira (aut.), Verner Monteiro (aut.), Maísa Veloso (aut.), Bárbara Silva (aut.), Mário Bruno Cruz (aut.), Clara Germana Gonçalves (aut.), Maria João Moreira Soares (aut.), Joao Miguel Couto Duarte (aut.), Raffaella Maddaluno (aut.), João Silva Jordão (aut.), María da Soledade Gómez Paiva de Sousa (aut.), Miguel Baptista Bastos (aut.), Alex Nogueira Rezende (aut.), José Vitor Correia (aut.), Ana Vasconcelos (aut.), José Cabral Dias (aut.), Eneida Kuchpil (aut.), Kate O’Connor (aut.), Sandra da Mouta Brito (aut.), Madalena Pinto Da Silva (aut.), Helena Paula Abreu de Carvalho (aut.), Marta Labastida (aut.), Maria Eunice da Costa Salavessa (aut.), José Tadeu Marques Aranha (aut.), Viviana Sofia Hipólito Frutuoso (aut.), Amilcar de Gil Pires (aut.), Wenyu Qi (aut.), João Guerreirinho (aut.), Hirbod Norouzianpour (aut.), David Weiss (aut.), Calogero Montalbano (aut.), José Silveira Dias (aut.), Fernando Moreira da Silva (aut.), Ana Moreira da Silva (aut.), Caio Marcelo Miolo de Oliveira (aut.), Rita Almendra (aut.), Ana Rita Lourenço (aut.), Tiago Perez Leitão Maciel (aut.), António Gorgel Pinto (aut.), Alberto Cruz Reaes Pinto (aut.), Gizela Horvath (aut.), Maria João Castro (aut.), António Canau (aut.), Szymon Wróbel (aut.), Isabel Gomes de Almeida (aut.), Guilherme Borges Pires (aut.), Kim Groop (aut.), María do Rosário Pimentel (aut.), Rodolfo Nogueira da Cruz (aut.), Maria Leonor García da Cruz (aut.), Olinda Kleiman (aut.), Ana Paula Avelar (aut.), Fernando Jorge Oliveira Ribeiro (aut.), Mário Carlos Fernandes Avelar (aut.), Angélica Varandas (aut.), Maria de la Salette da Costa Loureiro (aut.), Margarida Rendeiro (aut.), Raúl Montero Gilete (aut.), Eduardo M. Raposo (aut.), Gonçalo Falcão (aut.), Paulo Simões (aut.), Ana Cristina dos Santos Guerreiro (aut.), Maria da Graça dos Santos Antunes Moreira (aut.), Ana Pereira Neto (aut.), Ana Isabel Runa (aut.), Iuliana Borbely (aut.), Ermanno Aparo (aut.), Liliana Soares (aut.), Paula Maria Vieira Reaes Pinto (aut.), 2021, ISBN 9780429297786
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  • Macau is a challenging Chinese city. Undeniably linked to Portuguese culture, it reveals an exponential growth that leads us to reflect on what will be its path in the near future. This transformational process highlights the conflict between the new and the old, the modern and the classic, tradition, and innovation. Our main goal is to reveal that act between scales and to operate between the extreme density of the metropolis, with its high-rise buildings, and going lower into the small urban areas, made from courtyards, patios, and alleyways emerge as a strategy for a critical approach, where architecture is the protagonist of a new city awakening. In this context, the Inner Port Zone of the city, more specifically the area of Pátio da Claridade (Clarity Patio), assumes itself as a space for experimentation. Being a very degraded area, where multiple urban, architectural, and sociological problems are recognizable, it emerges as a priority urban revitalization area. In this context, its rehabilitation could be grounded upon understanding local customs and traditions to enhance solutions that promote and reinvent new urbanities. In a place where the inhabitants are mostly Chinese and believers of Feng Shui’s millennial art, this philosophy becomes unavoidable for formalizing the project, rescuing the essential values in a secular link between the East and the West.