Edifícios e espaços verdes

: construir a continuidade do território

Abstract

The urban renewal of Avenidas Novas parish is not just a technical issue of reconstruction of a territory, but a bet on a project to revitalize the city.
This proposal aims to rehabilitate this parish being an interpretation for a solution to improve the city and the quality of life of the inhabitants.
The proposal of a congress center in this area creates a new meeting place and knowledge facility in the city.
The advantages of the location of this proposal in this parish are its accessibility conditions such as public transport, proximity to the airport and north-south axis
and an area well served by hotels. Its central location in town, near to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, helps to create a new center of knowledge and interaction with the general population. By creating various public spaces, it is intended to promote pedestrian use, hence the creation of parks, green spaces and wider sid walks so that people feel comfortable in the city again in human scale spaces. The creation of these public spaces, besides benefitting people, will help the city with th e problems rough green reas with permeable soils in order to slow the water into the city drainage system.
It thus seeks a balance between green spaces and rdizing the loss of inhabitants in the city center and its displacement to the suburbs.

Date of Award	21 Dec 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	António da Silva Ferreira de Carvalho (Supervisor) & Gonçalo Nuno Pinheiro de Sousa Byrne (Supervisor)