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- The Households’ resilience: domestic space and remote work among a pandemic emergencyPublication . Jorge, Pedro Fonseca; Gonçalves, SérgioThis article aims to identify domestic space’s contemporary requirements, recognizing the processes in which, due to changes in the way we live, or unforeseen circumstances, the need to redistribute or redivide our liveable spaces arises. More demanding in terms of spatial separation, domestic space is influenced by behavioural because the household itself evolves and/or because emergencies induce new uses in spaces once designed for something else. The current pandemic situation has exposed the inefficiency of some of the current (and past) architectural trends. Domestic space is considered a group of areas with a single use in mind or with idealized uses never put into practice by its inhabitants. Flexibility is, therefore, a requirement, where the collected demands and constraints could be the starting point for research focused on new housing types and new construction methods, harbouring the needed elasticity to accommodate different living patterns under unforeseen circumstances.
- Mountable and Demountable Construction Systems of Interior Building Partitions: Ecology and Sustainability in the Ephemeral Use of SpacePublication . Jorge, Pedro Fonseca ; Gonçalves, SérgioThis article presents the ongoing research on sustainable construction systems, in terms of interior partitions, as alternatives to masonry or plasterboard techniques. Emphasis was given on assembly’s simplicity, to guarantee an easy execution by anyone without specific preparation or knowledge in construction (so the com-mon dweller can respond quickly and effectively to the changing behaviour and needs of the household), but also to emergencies resulting from unforeseen cir-cumstances, such as the current pandemic situation. The research was grounded on the use of materials with a reduced ecological footprint (based on Portuguese forest resources), and on modular construction processes (adaptable to most pre-existing situations). Additionally, such materi-als should allow a successive assembly and disassembly, using the same con-struction elements, a feature in which we can truly defend a decreased environ-mental impact. The purpose is to minimize waste and to create a circular eco-nomic circuit that continues after its components’ lifespan, whose materials allow them to be recycled for other uses. Methodologically, the existing partition systems, in terms of patenting but also market availability, were surveyed and analysed. Simultaneously, the conse-quences of the household’s behavioural changes in the domestic space, as well as those imposed by lockdown and remote work, were studied for our proposals to respond to the assessed needs more effectively, in terms of privacy, and ther-mal and noise isolation. The collected information was used to create several proposals for interior parti-tions, exploring different construction and assembly processes, with variable de-grees of complexity (later prototyped to measure its viability), to reply to the dweller’s different requirements in response to everyday life or exceptional cir-cumstances.