ARCHIPELAGO MARVILA

(1)

Masterplan

LISBON CONTINUES GROWING

IT industry and Web Summit

40%

housing

50%

working spaces

10%

spontaneus green spaces • touristification/gentrification

• new urban and architectural projects

• high density

• soil impermeabilization

• specialized workers populaton from other cties

• sqm price increases

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• big infrstructure landscape

• increment of the traffic

• increment of pollution

• demolition of local heritage spots

• tourism and hospitality structures developes

• temporary residents

• standardization of the neighbourhood

THIRD TAGUS CROSSING

New productive pole

50%

housing

30%

working spaces

20%

spontaneus green spaces

2 LISBON STOPS ITS GROWTH

Abandoned neighbourhood

40%

housing

10%

working spaces

50%

spontaneus green spaces • fragmented territory

• construction of new social housing

• new inhabitants composed by low-income classes and immigrants

• remoted area

• lack of connections with the city center

• dormitory neighbourhoods

• degradation and abandonment as the only identification quality

• ghetto and problematic area

3 ...

LISBON’S BUBBLE EXPLODES

The toxic cloud

30%

housing

5%

working spaces

65%

spontaneus green spaces • low density

• slums and illegal settlements

• population composed by low-income classes and immigrants

• disorganized occupation of the public land

• degradation and abandonment as the only identification quality

• transformation into a ghetto and problematic area

• high levels of criminality

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EXPO 98 BELEM AIRPORT PRAÇA DO COMERICIO praça do comercio

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east VS west

a not so far land

a broken promenade

degradation and

abandonment

not-human scale

lack of local

identity

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SOCIAL ISSUES

PHISICAL ISSUES

SOCIAL ISSUES

CONNECTION ISSUES

population mix

absence of

attractive points

long commuting

times

archipelago

neighbourhood

railway limit

road limit

irregular terrain

morphology

lack of urban

regultlation

-vocatyion scarcity

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speculation risk

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ARCHIPELAGO MARVILA

3.

EXPO BELEM

A. CREATING THE SECOND

LISBON GREEN LUNG

Bela Vista Urban Agricultural Park

B. ACTIVATING AND

CONNECTING THE

MARVILA ARCHIPELAGO

cultural landscape path

goal:

• enlarging the Bela Vista Park and creation of the

second-largest green area on the Oriental city’s

side;

• protecting the rural and agricultural landscape

from the real estate speculation.

• valorizing the local memory;

• enhancing a local identity;

• regenerating degraded/destroyed buildings;

• encreasing security level and the liveability;

• improving connection with the city centre

and the Expo ‘98 area;

• improving the connection between Marvila

and the river.

Mapping the activation centres and triggering

them through Tactical Urbanism actions

Linking the activated centres through the

Azinhagas’ cultural and landscape path

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2

A.

Parque da Bela Vista Parque Vale de Chelas Parque Vale Fundão Parque Quinta das Flores Parque da Bela Vista Sul Parque da Vinha M New Hospital New Hospital Braço da Prata Living Project Braço da Prata Living Project M