CONTRASTING THE BANALISATION OF TOURISM. Architectural, landscape and micro-urbanistic design of an accommodation facility in the Azores

Following the pandemic, tourism dynamics resumed in a compulsive form in response to the physical and social segregation during the covid-19 period. Mass forms of tourism, which stifle and alter local balances, often lead to trivialising outcomes. Following the analysis of these phenomena and the choice of a reference context, a project was drawn up on an urban, landscape and architectural scale as a hypothesis of an alternative model for tourist use. The intention is to see local specificities reworked in a contemporary key, with a view to the inclusion of the local population, with a space that is articulated between public and private, guaranteeing the permeability of the lot. Integration that also takes place from an ecosystem perspective, with agricultural and landscape techniques that attempt to integrate with the territorial dimension of the Azores, on the island of São Miguel.   Keywords: trivialising tourism, landscape, micro-urbanism, architecture