Re-inhabiting the Pinhão Valley

The Pinhão Valley is located in northern Portugal. Since the 1960s, the valley has been suffering from an increasing depopulation, which increases the risk of fires due to the abandonment of the land and forces the development of massive granite extraction, disfiguring the landscape. In this context, rehabilitating the Pinhão Valley is important to circumvent the system that considers it mainly as a territory of massive exploitation. Through this project, I asked myself how to rehabilitate the Valley while revealing its history: its architectural, cultural and natural heritage. To do this, 3 keys of action are fundamental: mobility, natural resources management and spatial regeneration. These three points allow us to lay the foundations for a development that emerges from the territory, sustainable and environmentally friendly.