Aldo Rossi and the Portuguese experience. Bairro Bela Vista, Casal das Figueiras: projects for the city
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Abstract
In 1976 José Charters Monteiro involved Rossi in the design of a building included in the Plan for Bairro Bela Vista in Setúbal. The intervention promoted by the Fundo de Fomento da Habitação (FFH) is part of a process that in Portugal has been crucial in the definition of a new approach to the solution of the housing problem. This approach inserts the topic of popular dwellings in the wider issue of city construction. In the same years Gonçalo Byrne realizes the housing project in Casal das Figueiras (1975). Conceived within the social development programs of the Serviço de Apoio Ambulatorio Local (SAAL), this intervention is paradigmatic of the search, carried out by the Portuguese architect, for the expression of an idea strongly related to the territory. \nIn the introduction to the portuguese edition of L’Architettura della città (1977) José Charters Monteiro states that the real consequences of Rossi’s considerations were not stylistic but conceptual, introducing a global vision of the city and architecture, as profound manifestations of human life. In this context is placed the attention that Rossi reserves to disciplinary fields external to architecture and which the author himself put in evidence in his introductory paper. The theories coming from the fields of geography and history contribute, in fact, to defining the character of design and the study of form, typical of architecture. \nThis research proposes a comparison in the light of the themes set out focusing on the relationship that, through the project, Rossi establishes with the territory and in particular with the city, identifying points in common and the divergencies with the geographical attitude that characterizes Portuguese architectural culture of the second half of the Twentieth Century. \nIn Setúbal Rossi designs a large residential building as part of the city and, more specifically, as an integral part of the district, confirming an architectural type linked to the evolving form and to the society to which it belongs. The design solution, deriving from a very precise model that Rossi previously had the opportunity to experiment in the project for the Gallaratese district, becomes a tool for the spatial-temporal investigation of the phenomena that generated it. Despite never actually being realised, Rossi’s project offers itself as an element of confirmation of the theories on the reading of the place fielded by the architect and as an element of comparison with the contemporary Portuguese experiences. \nThe investigation on the project for Setúbal takes place through the analysis of the documents kept in the archive of the Center Canadien d’Architecture and through the interviews taken with José Charters Monteiro and Gonçalo Byrne, aimed at shedding light on the development of Rossi’s proposal and on the relationship between architecture and geography as an important part of his theories and his works.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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