MARVILA COMMUNITY CENTRE A.2
Quinta dos Alfinetes
Intervention scale
Context Users
Time
Current state
Illegally occupiedRuin
Residential
• Elderly people
• Families
• Youngsters
• Associations
• Tourists
• Children
morning
afternoon evening
xl
night
Tactical Urbanism#DeFencing #DePaving #BetterBlockIniciatives #ChairBoombing #GuerrillaGardening
• abandoned and the wooden roof collapsed
• the fence closing the main entrance was turned down allowing homeless people to occupy it
• the building inside is a dump, abandoned garbage, metal car-components or tires
• the vegetation has grown controlless inside and outside the Quinta
• next to Quinta’s area, there is a fenced green space with concrete slab and some vertical elements built for the Associaçao Luso-Brasileira project by Oscar Niemeyer. The project was never complete.
• the plot has a central position inside Marvila
• the context is the meanly composed by residential buildings offering a big and diverse source of possible users
• it is near to public services like schools
• the neighbourhood is distinguished for a tradition of Citizens Associations
• the project for the Oriental Football Club Stadium has already been approved
new Marvila Community Centre and Associations Centre: the main and historical building hosts the Associations Center making easier the coordination of interventions and ideas and generating a hub of social empowerment. The new building will host the Community Centre facilities such as an auditorium, the museum of the Oriental Football Club of Marvila and multifunctional laboratories revitalized with Guerrilla Gardening
actions, involving the residents and allowing them to have their small garden to cultivate vegetable or to grow flowers
the green spaces around the Quinta dos Alfinetes are unified and transformed into a homogeneous park, equipped with playgrounds, bicycles parking area and a covered bus stop
the park connects the Quinta and its surrounding to the Marvila Public Library and, further on crossing the railway, with the MiM:
Miradouro Industrial de Marvila (B1.1 - B1.2 - B1.3)
the slopes empathize the old Quintas’ stone gate, which could represent a new landmark for the neighbourhood
the historical patio is restored becoming an inner square
organized parking lots serving the Community Centre and the Stadium the desolated public space can be
Intervention scale Context
Users
Tower and Quinta: Ruin Patio: Inhabited
Residential
Comercial and Tourism
• Elderly people
• Families
• Youngsters
• Tourists
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Current state
Time
morning night
afternoon evening
Tactical Urbanism#PavementToPlazas #FoodCarts #BetterBlockIniciatives #ChairBoombing #DeFencing
A.3
Quinta do Desterro
MULTI[FUN]CTIONAL SQUARE
• the main street of the ancient Quinta do Desterro result as a secondary road;
• most of the house facing on the Azinhaga are empty or partially destroyed;
• the empty spaces are used as parking lots by the resident;
• some parts of the area are used as an open-air dump.
• the largeness of the street encourages
• the buss station is in the middle of parked cars and garbage;
• there are not zebra crossing to cross the street and reach the public swimming pool and the adjacent new public park.
• the buildings lining the Azinhaga are distinguished by the traditional Portuguese architecture features such as Azulejo tiles on the facades, wooden doors and windows bordered with stone;
• the old Chafariz (Fountain) is still in good condition, it represents a traditional street element in the old Portuguese villages and also an important meeting point;
• through the years, along the Azinhaga, a community of inhabitants have been created, mostly elderly people;
• the streets and the vegetable gardens are populated by this community;
• a new public swimming pool has been built recently attracting people from other parts of the neighbourhood.
the ancient Chafariz is restored and acts as a landmark, a meeting point for the community
taking advantage of the ruing and with low budget design project the destroyed wall become a climbing wall
the bus stop is clean up by cars and garbage and renewed by a new canopy where people can wait for the public transport in the shadow
the only bar in the area is provided with a delimited esplanade and near the bus stop so people can wait and have a coffee the blind wall of
a house is used to project movies during the night creating an open-air cinema or an auditorium
the new pedestrian area is connected with the Vale Fundão Park and with the Public Swimming Pool the illegal parking lots are
transformed in a sport area: sports field and steps where the audience can sit and enjoy the game
the abbandoned buildings are converted into an Art Gallery and its walls into an open air Urban Street art Gallery
the street can host food trucks and some days per month also a food festival attracting people from the others part of the city r tourists
the Azinhaga and the smaller streets next to it are newly paved and transformed into a pedestrian area
