The research group formaurbis LAB was created in 2006 following the selection by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology of the research project "The Street in Portugal - Morphological Inventory". It was constituted from the multidisciplinary team that was submitted to the competition, composed of professors from the Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, research fellows, masters and PhD students with the development of research related to the theme of urban form.
formaurbis LAB has developed a network of relationships with research centres and research groups with common or complementary interests, as well as with national and international researchers involved in the work developed as collaborators or consultants.
The main goal of formaurbis LAB is to study the physical form of the city, understanding and interpreting the urban elements that constitute the fabric, metamorphoses, and evolutions over time. Its starting point is the Portuguese city not only in consolidated urban contexts but also in urban areas where forms are still to sediment and in accelerated transformation processes. In this sense, the group has developed over the last two decades the production of the Morphological Atlas of the Portuguese City. To this end, the group has developed and organised a rigorous database with a high quality of information, making it available not only to the team but to all the experts in this subject area, allowing the use of a single material source for the development and extension of research on urban morphology themes, with a focus on the Portuguese city.
formaurbis LAB welcomes the development of collective and individual research on the general theme of the morphology and morphogenesis, while focusing in such different aspects as the urban fabric production processes, its evolution, the characteristics and properties of shapes and urban models, and of an approach to the city shape from the management plan perspective.
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The research group formaurbis LAB was created in 2006 following the selection by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology of the research project "The Street in Portugal - Morphological Inventory". It was constituted from the multidisciplinary team that was submitted to the competition, composed of professors from the Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, research fellows, masters and PhD students with the development of research related to the theme of urban form.
formaurbis LAB has developed a network of relationships with research centres and research groups with common or complementary interests, as well as with national and international researchers involved in the work developed as collaborators or consultants.
The main goal of formaurbis LAB is to study the physical form of the city, understanding and interpreting the urban elements that constitute the fabric, metamorphoses, and evolutions over time. Its starting point is the Portuguese city not only in consolidated urban contexts but also in urban areas where forms are still to sediment and in accelerated transformation processes. In this sense, the group has developed over the last two decades the production of the Morphological Atlas of the Portuguese City. To this end, the group has developed and organised a rigorous database with a high quality of information, making it available not only to the team but to all the experts in this subject area, allowing the use of a single material source for the development and extension of research on urban morphology themes, with a focus on the Portuguese city.
formaurbis LAB welcomes the development of collective and individual research on the general theme of the morphology and morphogenesis, while focusing in such different aspects as the urban fabric production processes, its evolution, the characteristics and properties of shapes and urban models, and of an approach to the city shape from the management plan perspective.
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