Carlos, Gilberto Duarte

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Gilberto Duarte

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Gilberto Duarte Carlos

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PhD in Architecture from the University of A Coruña, with the thesis 'The Morphological legacy of Vernacular Architecture' (2014). Degree in Architecture from the University of Lisbon, with an internship at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Tokyo, Japan, with a scholarship awarded by the International Mobility Program (AUSMIP). ERASMUS fellow, at the Faculty of Architecture 'La Sapienza', in Rome, Italy. Researcher as a FCT Fellow, under the coordination of the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, participating in various missions to Africa and Asia (2004-2007). Coordinator of the Integrated Master in Architecture and Urbanism (former ESG) at Universidade Portucalense (2021-2023). Director of the Integrated Master in Architecture and Urbanism at ESG (2016-2021), having been Deputy Director of the Integrated Master in Architecture and Urbanism (2010 and 2016). Resident Researcher at the Research Center of the Escola Superior Gallaecia (2008-2021), participating in several R&D projects (Getty Foundation, Creative Europe, FCT, INTERREG), publishing scientific texts and participating regularly as a speaker in national and international seminars and conferences. Member of several scientific commissions, carrying out reviews of articles for events and specialized publications with relative assiduity (International Journal of Architectural Heritage, Journal Of Material Culture). In parallel he develops his practical activity as an Architect, highlighting his experience as a senior architect of the Local Studies Office for the reconstruction of Timor-Leste (GERTiL), in Dili, where he developed Urban Planning (Plano de Pormenor da Marginal de Dili) , public equipment projects (Centro Fronteiriço de Batugadé) and carried out construction supervision (Expansão da Escola Portuguesa, Fase II).

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0000-0001-7082-1048
401B-E9E7-BB93
56204106000

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CIAUD-UPT - Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design
O Centro de Investigação Gallaecia é responsável pela investigação e produção científica do DAMG. A equipa tem ganho regularmente financiamento para projetos de investigação, como coordenador ou parceiro, em candidaturas da FCT (projeto SEISMIC-V), programa Cultura 2000 (projeto VerSus) ou da Europa Criativa (projeto 3DPAST). A equipa realiza igualmente, consultoria e prestação de serviços a Municípios, assim como apoio às comunidades nas Juntas de Freguesia e Santa Casa da Misericórdia. Os principais projetos de investigação ganhos e coordenados pela equipa têm sido dedicados sobretudo a património vernáculo, arquitetura de terra, Património Mundial e multimédia. Atualmente, encontram-se em desenvolvimento, os projetos “Versus+: Heritage for People” do programa Europa Criativa, com participação de 4 países (2019-2023); e o projeto “SizaAtlas: Filling the gaps” projeto FCT, coordenado pelo ISCTE, com parceria da FAUP e da UPT (2021-2024). Devido ao desenvolvimento ativo de projetos, de formação e capacitação, de valorização e proteção de património vernáculo e de arquitetura de terra, a equipa foi outorgada, com a Cátedra UNESCO de “Arquitetura de Terra, Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Culturas Construtivas”, da UNITWIN e Chaire UNESCO da CRAterre; e é membro institucional da Rede Ibero-americana PROTERRA de arquitetura e construção com terra.

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    Versus methodology: Development and application
    2023-09-01 - Correia, Mariana; Carlos, Gilberto Duarte
    The development of the project VerSus / Lessons from Vernacular Heritage to Sustainable Architecture (2012-2014)1, constitutes the conceptual genesis of VerSus+ / Heritage for People (2019-2023). The two projects were developed in partnership by Escola Superior Gallaecia (ESG, now at Universidade Portu- calense - UPT), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), University of Florence (UNIFI), University of Cagliari (UNICA), and CRAterre-ENSAG, in the framework of the Creative Europe programme. The VerSus project outcomes (available at: esg.pt/VerSus) produced important results in a short-term period, which created expectations regarding its medium and long-range impacts (Carlos et al., 2014) (Correia, Dipasquale, & Mecca, 2014), especially following the European Commission award in 2016, which recognised the VerSus project as a success story “for its impact, contribution to policy-making, innovative results and creative approach - a source of inspiration for others” (Creative Europe Project Results Platform, 2016). In 2017, the project also won the ADDIPA European Award for Architecture Heritage Intervention (3rd Edition, category D).
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    Local Seismic Culture in Portugal: Melides dwellings, a reactive approach case study
    2015 - Gomes, Filipa; Carlos, Gilberto Duarte; Correia, Mariana
    Vernacular architecture has outstanding examples on the adoption of strategies for the improvement of structural building performance and construction systems, but also on the application of reinforcement measures. Special cases that combine local building culture, with structural poor materials and a history of low-medium regular seismic activity are suitable case studies that can provide interest- ing seismic-resistant strategies within the above-mentioned concept. This paper addresses Melides case study, located in the Southwest Coast of Portugal. The research is developed under the framework of the FCT project ‘SEISMIC-V: Vernacular Seismic Culture in Portugal’, which consists on identifying seismic resistant strategies and elements that can be recognised in Portuguese vernacular heritage. Even, if some of the identified case studies have no longer active building cultures, the overall study of their legacy dem- onstrates a wide range of approaches, rich in solutions of prevention and/or reaction approach.
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    Vernacular and earthen architecture at the core of local knowledge research: a quality partnership with successful outcomes
    2021 - Dipasquale, Letizia; Mecca, Saverio; Mileto, Camilla; Vegas, Fernando; Carlos, Gilberto Duarte; Correia, Mariana
    Since 2006, Escola Superior Gallaecia (Portugal), University of Florence (Italy), and Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), with partners as CRAterre-ENSAG (France), the University of Cagliari (Italy), and Ecole d’Avignon (France), have been working together, for the enhancement and protection of vernacular heritage and earthen architecture. As key-institutions in the area, they share high standards and common values, in order to address and achieve fundamental research, capacity building, learning experiences, relevant outcomes, contributing for a broader and deeper knowledge on vernacular heritage and earthen architecture
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    Protecting and valuing cultural heritage
    2021 - Carlos, Gilberto Duarte; Correia, Mariana
    Since 2006, Escola Superior Gallaecia (Portugal), University of Florence (Italy), and Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), with partners as CRAterre-ENSAG (France), the University of Cagliari (Italy), and Ecole d’Avignon (France), have been working together, for the enhancement and protection of vernacular heritage and earthen architecture. As key-institutions in the area, they share high standards and common values, in order to address and achieve fundamental research, capacity building, learning experiences, relevant outcomes, contributing for a broader and deeper knowledge on vernacular heritage and earthen architecture. Several projects were developed among the partners, throughout the years. This was just possible by running together for European Union funded research, and successfully achieving it, by undertaking relevant contribution to knowledge, as well as comprehensive scientific dissemination. This was the case of the following projects: Terra Incognita (2006-2008); Earthen Domes & Habitat – A building tradition between East and West (2008-2010); Terra (in)cognita/Terra Europae (2009-2011: culture-terra-incognita.org); VerSus – From Vernacular Heritage to Sustainable Architecture (2012- 2014: esg.pt/versus); 3DPAST – Living and virtual visiting European World Heritage (2016-2020: esg.pt/3dpast); and VERSUS+ | Heritage for People (2019-2023: esg.pt/versus-plus). Other key-projects have been also developed through National Funding Agencies for Science, Research and Technology as it was the case of: Seismic-V – Local Seismic Culture in Portugal (esg.pt/seismic-v); PRIN – Scientific, experimental and tacit knowledge and conservation actions of Earthen Architectural Heritage in Southern Italy; ResTAPIA – Restoration of rammed earth in Iberia Peninsula (www.restapia. es); SOStierra – Restoration and Rehabilitation of traditional earthen architecture in Iberia Peninsula (sostierra.blogs.upv.es) and RISK-Terra (https://riskterra.blogs.upv.es); among others. The focus of the distinct researches was to address: a state of the art of earthen architecture in Europe (both Terra Incognita projects); to define principles from vernacular heritage that contribute to sustainable architecture (VerSus project & VERSUS+ project); to enhance the quality of vernacular architecture and its World Heritage character (3DPAST); to distinguish seismic retrofitting in vernacular architecture, in order to pro-actively strength dwellings facing earthquakes (Seismic-V).
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    Communication and dissemination of vernacular heritage
    2021 - Dipasquale, Letizia; Mecca, Saverio; Vicente, José; Correia, Mariana; Carlos, Gilberto Duarte; Correia, Teresa
    Vernacular architecture is one of the most significant cultural expressions of a socio-economic structure: it represents the way in which local materials and traditional building techniques, learned from endogenous evolutionary processes and from cultural advances, were used to respond to the physical and socio-economic needs of a group, thus generating remarkable architectural models adapted to the historical-cultural experience and the specific environmental restriction of each territory. They are, therefore, unique models strongly linked both to the environmental and to the socio-economic and cultural context, which nevertheless have universal elements in common: they use local resources; they adapt strongly to the morphology and to the bioclimatic characteristics of the place; they are the result of the transmission of experience and knowledge; they are the expression of a living model and the identity of a group; they are extremely vulnerable, as they face sudden changes (natural or cultural); and the deterioration process can be easily triggered.
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    Agricultural support units: Buildings to structure the rural territory
    2025-02-03 - Carlos, Gilberto Duarte
    From the dovecotes in the northeast mountains to the windmills on the central coast, it is absolutely imperative to resort to vernacular architecture as an integral part of the collective memory that shapes the cultural landscape of Portugal. Prior to the city, before (temporally and spatially) the urban building, and always beyond housing, the agricultural support building constitutes an inevitable legacy in the national built heritage. To understand the Portuguese territory without it, without considering their ethnographic and architectural terms, without perceiving its importance in the critical review of the modern movement, implies refusing a significant part of the foundations on the international recognition of contemporary Portuguese architecture and its relationship with the context (in its physical and cultural dimension). Using the iconic granary (through its basic function, diversity and evolution), this reflection tests a critical itinerary having as parameters the Programme, Context and Time of this typology. According to the methodological organisation proposed in the research project: “Building Typology. Morphological Inventory of Portuguese City”. Somewhere between the recognition of its expiration and the moral (ir)relevance of its Documentation, between the original functional pragmatism and the (f)utility of reinterpretation, between technological inconsistency and cultural sustainability; this text intends to characterise and reflect on the role of this type of heritage in cataloguing and classifying our architectural heritage.
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    Vernacular architecture in Chazhashi settlement, Upper Svaneti, Georgia
    2021 - Bermudez, Teresa; Carlos, Gilberto Duarte; Sousa, Goreti; Correia, Mariana; Alcindor, Mónica
    The Ushguli territory is located in the Upper Svaneti region, in Georgia. Its occupation is particularly influenced by the Enguri River course. The river Enguri is born in the Caucasian mountain chain, formed by the glaciers of the Shkhara peak, the Georgian highest point (5068m). From a geographical perspective, the high valley conformed by the Engury stream constitutes the fundamental axis for the implantation of the four historical settlements that are part of Usghuli area, listed as World Heritage, since 1996 (UNESCO-WHC, 1996). [...]
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    The traditional cultural landscape of Pico Island and its vernacular architecture, Portugal
    2021 - Bermudez, Teresa; Costa, Manuel P.; Correia, Mariana; Florentino, Rui; Alcindor, Mónica; Carlos, Gilberto Duarte; Sousa, Goreti
    In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is located the Azores archipelago, composed by nine volcanic islands. Pico island was the seventh to be discovered by Portuguese sailors, during the 15th century. Its name is due to the pyramidal form of its mountain, a geological volcano reaching 2.351 meters, the highest mountain in Portuguese territory (Costa, 1997). Pico island has an amazing vineyard culture, especially in its western coastline. The exceptional landscape character granted to Pico a World Heritage status in 2004.
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    Vernacular architecture in Chazhashi Settlement, Upper Svaneti, Georgia
    2021 - Carlos, Gilberto Duarte; Sousa, Goreti; Correia, Mariana; Alcindor, Mónica
    Since 2006, Escola Superior Gallaecia (Portugal), University of Florence (Italy), and Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), with partners as CRAterre-ENSAG (France), the University of Cagliari (Italy), and Ecole d’Avignon (France), have been working together, for the enhancement and protection of vernacular heritage and earthen architecture. As key-institutions in the area, they share high standards and common values, in order to address and achieve fundamental research, capacity building, learning experiences, relevant outcomes, contributing for a broader and deeper knowledge on vernacular heritage and earthen architecture. Several projects were developed among the partners, throughout the years. This was just possible by running together for European Union funded research, and successfully achieving it, by undertaking relevant contribution to knowledge, as well as comprehensive scientific dissemination. This was the case of the following projects: Terra Incognita (2006-2008); Earthen Domes & Habitat – A building tradition between East and West (2008-2010); Terra (in)cognita/Terra Europae (2009-2011: culture-terra-incognita.org); VerSus – From Vernacular Heritage to Sustainable Architecture (2012- 2014: esg.pt/versus); 3DPAST – Living and virtual visiting European World Heritage (2016-2020: esg.pt/3dpast); and VERSUS+ | Heritage for People (2019-2023: esg.pt/versus-plus). Other key-projects have been also developed through National Funding Agencies for Science, Research and Technology as it was the case of: Seismic-V – Local Seismic Culture in Portugal (esg.pt/seismic-v); PRIN – Scientific, experimental and tacit knowledge and conservation actions of Earthen Architectural Heritage in Southern Italy; ResTAPIA – Restoration of rammed earth in Iberia Peninsula (www.restapia. es); SOStierra – Restoration and Rehabilitation of traditional earthen architecture in Iberia Peninsula (sostierra.blogs.upv.es) and RISK-Terra (https://riskterra.blogs.upv.es); among others. The focus of the distinct researches was to address: a state of the art of earthen architecture in Europe (both Terra Incognita projects); to define principles from vernacular heritage that contribute to sustainable architecture (VerSus project & VERSUS+ project); to enhance the quality of vernacular architecture and its World Heritage character (3DPAST); to distinguish seismic retrofitting in vernacular architecture, in order to pro-actively strength dwellings facing earthquakes (Seismic-V).
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    Introduction: earthen architecture, an endangered vernacular heritage
    2021-12-21 - Carlos, Gilberto Duarte; Correia, Mariana
    Troughout the centuries, earthen and vernacular architecture have revealed outstanding building cultures across the world. Tis rich and unique architecture is expressed through diferent tangible expressions in distinct cultural regions. For the last 50years, a fragile earthen vernacular heritage is disappearing, even with rising awareness for its protection. Te earthen endangered heritage is today at a higher risk of vanishing, especially due to man-made actions, such as urban pressure, globalisation, climate change, human confict, but even through gentrifcation and inadequate interventions.