Using Heritage to Develop Sustainable Port-City Relationships: Lisbon’s shift from Object-based to Landscape Approaches

Port cities face enormous sustainability challenges. In this chapter, we propose a relational view of these challenges and explore how different models of governance connect the three pillars of sustainable development: Economy, environment, and society. We also address the contradictions inherent to new port plans or waterfront projects,...

The coexistence of multiplicities

The Manutenção Militar Complex (MMC) is situated along the river just outside of the city center of Lisbon. Within the industrial complex they produced food, uniforms and other goods for the Portuguese Army. Whilst the Portuguese Army reached 200,000 men in the 1960s, it is now reduced to 20,000 active soldiers. This meant that the factories of...

Beyond the call of Duty: Transformation of the Military Milling factory of the MMC into the Culinary Art school of Beato

The MMC is a secluded military zone that used to produce food for the army of Portugal in times of war. The area is vacant and decides the neighborhood of Beato, but it is now open for public development. The proposition in this paper is to transform the main production factory (milling factory) in a Culinary Art school. You will read about the...

Disclosing the military city Lisbon: Re-starting the machine

This master thesis is part of the graduation studio named ‘Disclosing the Military City Lisbon’ as part of the chair Heritage and Architecture at the TU Delft. The studio assignment and project is initiated in collaboration with DOCOMOMO (International committee for documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the...

The Urban Foyer: a cultural connector

The Manutenção Militar Complex (MMC) was an industrial facility that produced food, uniforms and other goods for the Portuguese Army. The first bakery was accommodated in a former Convent – Convento das Grilas – by the end of the 19th Century. During the 20th Century, due to the needs during the First World War and the Portuguese Colonial War in...

Values of non-intended architecture

The MMC was an industrial facility that produced food, uniforms and other goods for the Portuguese Army. During the twentieth century the complex was expanded. Whilst the Portuguese Army reached 200.000 men in the 1960’s, it is now reduced to 20.000 active soldiers. Gradually the factories closed and Manutencao Militar was finally substituted by...

The gateway to MMC: Meanings of narrative and aging in Beato, Lisbon

The strategy of the design assignment on the masterplan level stresses the importance of the age – friendly design and the sustainability of the development. The main users (target groups) will be local residents (of various age) and the newly discovered social group: Active Third Age Generation - so called Young Seniors. The place of the...

MATCH: Disclosing the military city Lisbon

Disclosing the military city Lisbon My project involves a former military site located in the edge of Lisbon. The project is located in the district Beato located near the harbor north of the center of the city. This project is closely related to the studio of Heritage & architecture as it is not only worth keeping, but can and needs to be...

Going High Speed: Urban railway development by the advent of a new high speed rail

Abstract – ‘As one station planner stated, the list of cities that are relevant in Europe nowadays equals the list of cities included in the HST network; this may not be entirely true in fact, but it is increasingly the way things are perceived, which makes it a reality in effect.’ (Trip, 2007). The high speed train links main city centers from...

Beyond the World Fair

World Expos are ‘world known’ events, with its core business to meet, learn and innovate. The national pavilions specially build for these events are outstanding architectural structures to show off the visitors and the rest of the world. What many people do not know is that the post-use of these structures and the surrounding area are in many...

Highspeed Train Station and Masterplan Entrecampos International

Design for a new highspeed train station in Entrecampos, Lisbon and a masterplan for the surroundings.

Creative city development in the Lisbon strategy: Evidence from Dutch ERDF allocation

Creativity is considered a main factor of urban competitiveness nowadays. However, while local policies increasingly reflect the ideas of Richard Florida, Charles Landry and others, the influence of the creative city concept on higher level policies is not clear. The paper takes this issue to the European Union’s Lisbon strategy, intended to...

Hydro-morphological study Tagus Estuary: Memorandum on the salinity on the inner estuary

In one of the most recent studies for AGPL, Hydronamic studied the influence of works in the outer bar on the salinity-distribution in the upstream section of the estuary. The main conclusion from this study was that current-patterns, tidal prism, etc. in the inner estuary are :fully determined by ,the geometry of the Corredor, and that...

Terminal do Seixal- Hydro morphological study, additional work

Siderurgia Nacional EP has planned to construct an ore terminal nearby Seixal (Portugal) and to dredge an access channel and turning basin in the southern part of the Tagus Inner Estuary. In the Hydronamic report, entitled Terminal do Seixal, Hydro-Morphological Study, February 1982/ P457' the hydraulical, nautical and morphological consequences...

Hydro-morphological study Tagus Estuary: Additional work salt intrusion due to dredging of Barra Sul

In case Barra Sul is dredged, there is a risk of an increased salt intrusion into the estuary. Model computations have been performed to comper present salt intrusion with future salt intrusion

Hydromorphological study Tagus Estuary, wave penetration model and estuarine flow model

Integrated study on the hydro-morphology of the Tagus outer estuary and the Tagus Inner estuary. Wave penetration calculations, tidal flow calculations and calibration measurements.