Coordinated by Reaes Pinto. Study of a Pre-Fabricated Modular Housing, of evolutive structure, that responds to the needs of a population of few resources, nationally or in other Portuguese-speaking countries, with housing shortages, using panels made of low carbon materials. Its advantages over conventional processes are the reduction of execution times, and the reduction of waste, in the work fronts, improving environmental performance. This RP, involving PhD students. 

Coordinated by Reaes Pinto. In this research, we intend to study blocks (without or with few mortars) derived from raw soil, but incorporating other low carbon materials, such as cork, straw, rice husk, hemp, and these blocks used in self-construction. The results of this research will be associated with the RP "Evolutive Pre-Fabricated Modular Housing". 

Coordinated by Artur Feio. One of the major consequences of disasters is the destruction of housing and the inherent number of displaced population, and it is necessary to guarantee sufficient temporary housing in the shortest possible time. Temporary shelter is crucial to this whole population resettlement process, as it ensures minimum living conditions. The main objective of this work is to develop constructive solutions for temporary shelters using reversible constructive systems for this purpose. 

Coordinated by Moreira Pinto. Seeks to illustrate a development strategy for an Urban Architectonic Layout, in the point of view of Shapes - concerning architecture and urban design - and the way how they will improve or not the human mood. In the scope of this RP it is intended to create a mobile application. The RP integrates researchers from Portugal, Poland, Italy, and Lithuania. 

Coordinated by Cristina Gomes. International partner's invitation (Cristina Boeri, Milano University; Verena Shindler, Study Group on Environmental Color Design; Luis Caivano, University of Buenos Aires). Through the case study of the IP "Color in Aid", it is intended to analyze the relationship between Color, architecture and intervention technologies in the process of rehabilitation of this. This research project consider consult meeting and open classes oriented to students from the 1st cycle of Architecture and Design graduation.  

Coordinated by Reaes Pinto. Team: Catarina Pires (Municipality of Santarém), Paulo Durão, Angel Posada (Universidade de Sevilha). Based on the work developed over the years by the Municipality and there is a need to develop a set of actions focused on the Historic Center of Santarém in the sense of revitalizing, reopening and transforming into a surplus for the city from the housing points of view, commercial and tourist, it is intended to deepen and develop actions and programs of promotion and dynamization of the buildings and their public space.  

Coordinator by Samuel Roda. The project rethinks the various spatial typologies of the path between the MU-SA and Quinta da Regaleira through a new field of possibilities, in a classified and differentiated village.  

Coordinated by Horácio Bonifácio. This project seeks to analyze and understand the architectural cultural heritage, both theoretical and related to the direct actors; the architects and the theoretical production; which influences the formation and architectural production of the different artists, as well as the material works produced in modern and contemporary times. 

Coordinated by Davide Malheiro. The rural Romanesque in the Douro basin: the contemporary reality. It proposes to study the architectural objects of Romanesque origin, the clarification of its Genesis, its affiliation and origins, in order to clarify the Romanesque architecture of the north of Portugal, particularly in the Douro basin and its insertion in the Portuguese architecture of the Middle Ages and the Mediterranean. 

Coordinated by Andreia Galvão. This project will address the important charitable and philanthropic heritage produced in Portugal, from the beginning of the Misericórdias, unique institutions of the world, from the sixteenth century to the present day. 

Coordinated by Paulo Maldonado. 1. Maldonado, P. et al. 2016. Inspaedia [internet]. Available in: inspaedia It is the first web platform that relates, in an inspiring and productive way to the research and development processes (also in Design), relevant contents of the following thematic areas: Design; Innovation; Art; Photography; Movie theater; Performative Arts; Video Art; Architecture; Painting; Sculpture; Conferences; Exhibitions; Multimedia; Materials; Music; Attraction type Neighborhoods; Libraries; Universities; Teaching; Research Centers; Investigation; Average; Sustainability; Inclusive Design; Color; Digital Media; Digital Games; Tendencies; Fashion; Branding; Entrepreneurship; Augmented Reality; Digital Technologies 

Coordinated by Regina de Oliveira Heidrich (Universidade Feevale, Novo Hamburgo, RS, Brasil), Paulo Maldonado (CITAD) and Célia de Sousa (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria). Multisensory books project is a contribution to the innovation and social inclusion of children with learning difficulties. The results of this project will be a positive contribution for the learning processes and social integration. SENSeBOOKS is a project that involves researchers and research units from Brazil and Portugal and was selected and financed by the Programa de Desenvolvimento Abdias Nascimento grant promoted by SECADI and CAPES (Brazil).
The main results will be exposed through book publishing, magazines and newspapers in different areas of skill, presentation at conferences, seminars and national and international workshops, in addition to works produced in the laboratory, as Labcor (Laboratory of color) and Production Laboratory Blocks for Construction of buildings in renewable materials and in the LabLuz (Laboratory of Light), linked to industry, businesses and municipalities.

Coordinated by Mário João Alves Chaves. The flexiexistentialista society is the paradox of deterministic society, in a time totally focused on science and technology, through knowledge, it is necessary to have transversal visions, that can cover all social, cultural, academic, political, economic, religious, scientific, technical, philosophical, linguistic situations. interconnect, require the ability of the actors to be concatenated.
Architects have this ability to architect, form and abstractly conceive the links between all parties, by understanding and systematize the different components that are provided to society.
The flexiexistencialista society, continuously plastic, elastic and with a degree of hardness intrinsically adaptable to the circumstances of extraordinary capacity of mutation and evolution, architects are flexiexistentialists because they know how to shape and adapt to the society that shapes and consubstantiates them, but also because they can be the leaders in fostering interaction among all social agents.
Architects can be the managers of the complexities that arise with each advent, each of them happens in a social circumstance that must occur in a constructible singularity to which the architect gives shape and context. There is architecture in everything, we are all flexiexistentialists.