Atles del Port de Maó
An eminently urban landscape, an infrastructure element, and a -natural- port of general interest of the State, explained from architecture as a discipline and a starting point: this is the purpose of the doctoral thesis "Atlas of the port of Maó". Its objective is to describe, objectivity...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/668837 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668837 https://dx.doi.org/10.5821/dissertation-2117-182124 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Arquitectura 623 627 71 72 |
| Sumario: | An eminently urban landscape, an infrastructure element, and a -natural- port of general interest of the State, explained from architecture as a discipline and a starting point: this is the purpose of the doctoral thesis "Atlas of the port of Maó". Its objective is to describe, objectivity, all the elements that affect a flooded urban valley that, beyond the legal limits established as port, become unequivocally linked. Port uses that pass through logistic and commercial traffic, fishing or recreational sailing, which will coexist with other overlapping realities: healthy ones, tourism, housing, industry or the disuse of an enormous historical heritage, of military origin, built according to interests that surpassed those of the island of Menorca. After a search that has not ignored any source of information (architectures and built infrastructures, unrealized projects, planning documents, marines, engravings, photographs or newspaper archives), the document is presented in two volumes. The first one, a catalog that distills the huge amount of localized architectures and archival documents, simply, chronically. An essential graphic chronicle to know rigorously everything that has always happened in the harbour. The second one, a transversal account of the more than three hundred documented elements that synthesises these multiple architectural realities, and the multitude of social, economic and political phenomena that overlap in a border, physical and administrative scenario, always conflicting. A second volume that, in addition, is based on the use of drawing as a key tool for interpreting the port; a new graphical representation of the system. The thesis aims to prove that Maó is a port that surpasses its immediate condition: it is an urban scenario, representative; a natural system, but a continuously constructed, altered infrastructure; a residential space, but also for tourism and holiday homes; an economic system in constant reformulation, with significant environmental challenges; And a landscape with an extraordinary heritage park in disuse, which can become a set of opportunities, productive boost. To demonstrate, therefore, that the port requires new formulas of government that operate on new limit conditions; that integrate infrastructure, housing, tourism and heritage, articulated in network, for the best integral management of this landscape as a vital reference and productive of the island. |
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