Casal das Figueiras, Setubal

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People:

Museu Serralves (archive creator)
Gonçalo Byrne (architect)

Title:

Casal das Figueiras, Setubal

Date:

1978-1979

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

7 drawings (reproductions)

Scope and content:
This project series contains seven reproductions of drawings displayed in the exhibit to document the Casal das Figueiras neighbourhood, in Setúbal, south of Lisbon, Portugal.
The exhibit text explained that:
... the Setúbal port-city experienced the political vibrations of the revolutionary year with great intensity. The Casal das Figueiras neighbourhood was designed for a fishing community living in a difficult area to build on due to its steep incline. The challenge that the project architect Gonçalo Byrne faced was to maintain the structure of single-family housing with the outhouse or courtyard, the typology that the local populations requested, while making a large urban gesture. The proposal was based on two types of housing (the square and rectangular plans). This overcame the problem of the 36 percent slope in an architecturally striking manner, while it also managed to fulfil the major requirement inherent in any SAAL operation of minimizing costs. (The SAAL Process, Housing in Portugal 1974–76)
Gonçalo Byrne worked for SAAL/Lisbon and Central South with Ana Ferreira Rebocho, Berta Sá Caetano and the residents' association Casal das Figueiras, that was founded on October 30th, 1975. The project included 420 dwellings. The operation began in July 1975 , with a construction date in October 1976.
This project series contains reproductions of implementation plans and design development drawings. The original drawings were produced in 1978-1979 and were reproduced in 2015 for the exhibit.

Reference number:

CD034.S1.1975.PR02

Arrangement:
Materials in this project series were kept in their original order.

Location:

Setubal Portugal

Language of material:

Portuguese

CD034.S1.1975.PR02.001, Implementation plans and a design development drawing, Casal das Figueiras, Setubal, Portugal, 1978-1979

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