Abstract

SILVA, Teresa Madeira da. Spaces neither-nor - Neither Public nor Private, in Large-Scale Social Housing Buildings. Forum Sociológico [online]. 2019, n.34, pp.31-42.  Epub Aug 04, 2021. ISSN 0872-8380.  https://doi.org/10.4000/sociologico.4728.

Departing from the study of two social housing building sets located in Marvila (Lisbon), called Zona J and Pantera Cor-de-Rosa (Pink Panther), we propose to investigate how the circulation spaces and accesses are used on gallery organized large buildings. In addition to the public and private spaces, we have confirmed the existence of semi-public areas, here called "neither-nor", neither public nor private, correspondents to the circulation spaces within the buildings and shared by several lots : corridors, galleries, halls, walkways (horizontal circulations), or stairs, ramps and elevators (vertical circulation), where the appropriation is unclear. The way these spaces are organized has both positive and negative consequences for its inhabitants. On one hand, it is conducive to the establishment of belonging relations by its inhabitants on the appropriation process, on the other hand, it is conflict motive and arena between residents of different lots, making local building management difficult due to the poor definition of the boundaries between public and private.

Keywords : social housing; neither-nor spaces; architectural models.

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