ABOUT THE GROUP
Sustenta - Laboratory for Sustainable Design is a research group from the Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD) of the Lisbon School of Architecture (FA-ULisboa), since November 2012. Sustenta aims to support projects, studies or any research/training activities in the area of Eco-architecture, by developing methodologies for sustainable intervention, not only on traditional building techniques with the help of new technologies, low cost self-design and heritage rehabilitation, but also on territory planning based on Geographic Information Systems.
Its team’s skills range from developing research projects (in the theoretical and/or applied aprroach) in Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, as well as training and dissemination activities of scientific knowledge, especially through the provision of postgraduate training courses, workshops, seminars and curriculum monitoring internships.
OBJECTIVES
Promote the concept of Sustainable Design, regarding the natural resources’ suitability and its cultural recognition, as an alternative intervention methodology to current territorial planning and architectural practices
Support and encourage the practice of Transdisciplinary Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design, through the development of a network between the community, the academy, and the economic agents
Establish analysis (and synthesis) methods of the territory that allow to define appreciation criteria of all human productive activity (transformation of the environment, production of the habitat, and resource exploitation) from an ecological perspective
Elaborate studies on the landscape dynamics in terms of its human occupation, land use, and resource consumption, by diagnosing their future impacts
Find Compatibility Principles, in the habitat’s construction practice, including artefacts’ production, and territorial management tools, contributing to the integrated development of local communities and the protection of its landscape
Explore participatory design methods and the applications of a "Green Architecture" concept
EVENTS
Sustenta's workgroup has developed since 2012 a number of events that can result in seminars, symposiums and conferences, resulting from the different research projects coordinated.
PROJECTS
Sustenta's research areas (applied and pure) result, generally, from the existing requirements and opportunities, in an operative logic, part of the transversality of knowledge, based on sustainable project(s).
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
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MASTER
PROJECTS
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DOCTORAL
PROJECTS
FORMATIONS
Sustenta's workgroup has developed since 2012 a number of training actions in the form of workshops, specialization courses / postgraduate courses and optional courses, particularly at FA-ULisboa, resulting from the different research projects coordinated.
TESTIMONIALS
J'ai travaillé 2 mois avec les chercheurs de Sustenta, grâce à une convention de stage internationale. Cette belle expérience m'a permis d'étudier concrètement le fonctionnement des paysages et son rapport à l'architecture. J'ai été positivement étonné par le choix de l'écologie radicale dans les propositions de Sustenta, qui affronte les problèmes actuels de front.
FRANÇOIS BOUCAULT
BOOKS
Resulting from various events and research projects carried out by Sustenta, publications are annually released containing, for example, seminar articles' proceedings (in several areas of knowledge), or conclusions about the methodologies and intervention proposals adopted.
DISSEMINATION
The members of Sustenta's research group publish annually papers, mostly resulting from communications presented in events of national and/or international nature, in different areas of knowledge.
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PUBLISHED PAPERS
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COMMUNICATIONS PRESENTED
TEAM
Sustenta's team consists of a group of researchers from many different areas of expertise, from Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, Design, Philosophy, History and even Sociology.
PARTNERS
Sustenta relies on a set of institutional partners, belonging to different areas of expertise, particularly Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Philosophy.
