Reabilitação de uma habitação quinhentista na zona histórica de Castelo Branco

Tese de mestrado, Design de interiores, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2013Tese de mestrado, Design de interiores, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas, 2013The present document is an author’s compilation work, and it’s the conclusion of studies on degree of Master of Interior Design by ESART, IPCB. Here, the document presents a rehabilitation project of a house in Castelo Branco’s old town, as an internship at Gabinete de Reabilitação da Zona Histórica e da Devesa de Castelo Branco | Câmara Municipal de Castelo Branco. This internship’s main topics were the Patrimony’s Protection and the Rehabilitation of Old Town’s Degraded Areas, in this particular case, the city of Castelo Branco. Interns have developed various jobs to support projects developed by the Office(GRZHDCB | CB). This was to promote a bigger sensitivity to those topics and also to develop a better capacity of field work on those projects. The project that names this text consists in a restauration of a fifteenth century home, which is Municipality property, and is located in the Historic Area (Zona Histórica) which use here is proposing to amend – students’ housing. This choice is due to the urgent need of optimising and renewing this area, but also as a way to conscientize the young population for the importance to repopulate old places, so they can continue to tell the stories of their cities. Part of this document is then composed of a description of all the work done during the internship as well as the various stages of project development, both during and after the training period, along with the justification of all the choices mad