SEWING SPACES INBETWEEN | E13 SPECIAL MENTION
Europan 13, Barreiro, Portugal. Special Mention.
Project Team | Authors: David Castanheira (PT | architect - team representative), Francisco Carrasco (PT | architect), João Gomes (PT | architect), Luísa França (PT | architect) | Collaborators: Ana Gaspar (PT | architect), Pedro Gomes (PT | architect).
Rehabilitate and reconnect, structure and sprawl, densify and consolidate. Sewing spaces inbetween. Aiming in a first phase of intervention to rehabilitate spaces and buildings of interest, as well as reconnect them with the surrounding through a urban platform which in a second phase will help to structure and sprawl the intervention by a project design to densify and consolidate at a third phase level. Creating an urban platform by the development of a urban structure that generates a communication level between spaces, which allies a transport network that serves and infrastructures the in between spaces and spaces inbetween that sew the project premises all together, adapting and shaping architecture, nature and people that indwell them athwart a spatial, social and ecological convergence, never forgetting the memory and heritage, natural and industrial, of Barreiro. Sewing spaces inbetween on a local perspective in order to connect them to a larger area as a new regional point of attraction.
