"Home is not a House" - Reaction lx - Meds -2013
The space will have a plan of the neighborhood with all the places to visit, the space thus serving as the tourist information office, this may be the same as the Graça main square a second point of convergence for those coming to visit the neighborhood .
The idea or strategy is simple just sanding, poking and paint the surfaces of reinforced concrete, color TRAM yellow , then erect a structure reminiscent of how then occupied lot in order to give substance to the urban plateau.
Living in the neighborhood of grace is to live in community, is knowing how to live with more people, near the small trade, the constant Tram traffic, know how to live in the neighborhood of grace is going up and down the hill to enter the neighborhood, is smoking a cigarette in any viewpoint and drink a glass of wine listening to your neighbor to sing fado.
This Graça neighborhood is a living entity, in which if the conditions exist the young and the old people occupy their spaces and live the best way its neighborhood.
The Plateau of Graça has this potential, given its genesis, its urban small pedestrian plaza in the heart of the neighborhood and all the ingredients together local point for this space.
Its establishment or "birth" is done by the 1950s, the square comes by subtraction ie the gap until then was occupied by a building belonging to the city council of Lisbon by aging issues enter into disrepair and eventually be demolished in the 70s (1971), giving rise to a square space in place of the said building.
The plateau remained unoccupied over 15 years and about 90 years is built largely from existing infrastructure such as the bank concrete boundary walls and stairs.
Given the strangeness of the configuration of the lot, ie "do not need to go through there to go somewhere," the space is occupied only poorly as home half a dozen souls.
The idea or strategy is simple just sanding, poking and paint the surfaces of reinforced concrete, color TRAM yellow , then erect a structure reminiscent of how then occupied lot in order to give substance to the urban plateau.
build quickly and a tubular mild steel, plant some vines and sow as urban furniture benches and tables to allow more permanence to the young man who comes to dating and old that comes to play dominoes and talk of neighbor.
The floor space will have a plant of the neighborhood with all the places to visit, the space thus serving as the tourist information office, this may be the same as the Graça main square a second point of convergence for those coming to visit the neighborhood .
