Património natural e arquitectónico: plano de intervenção na aldeia de Ermelo

Abstract

This present work emerged from the ambition to propose an architectural intervention in the remarkable landscape of Ermelo, mainly because of the potentialities of contemplation and enjoyment that its outstanding character offers to any project that intents to enclosure in it, but also for the personal unrest motivated by the way that it’s being currently appropriated. Consequently, when associating the new tourist trend of demanding natural places for leisure to the increasing knowledge and search of one of the biggest Europe waterfalls found on the village in question, it appeared to be coherent the conclusion that this landscape needed an intervention adjusted to its character as a way to prevent certain future discontents. Despite its inclusion in a natural park, the selected area is described as a strongly humanized landscape that lost its ancestral supremacy, gathering today a population mainly senior. Its proximity to urban centers intensifies the damaging human concentration, that tends to be aggravated as it becomes more known and its accesses are improved. These are facts that had defined the tourist activity in rural space as a subject to be developed. Therefore as an approach to support the visitation, on the leisure zones that suffer a bigger concentration during summertime a few structures were proposed and on the urban area some constructions were redirected to the practice of Tourism in rural space. Both these complementary parts react to the number of visitors who travel to appreciate and enjoy the beauty of a landscape that is integrated in a protected area and intent to contribute to the usefulness of this chosen territory in a disciplined and particular approach.