ENTRECAMPOS HOUSING - Promontorio

ENTRECAMPOS
HOUSING
Avenida das Forcas Armadas, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004 – 2011
RESIDENTIAL
Location Avenida das Forcas Armadas, Lisbon
Client EPUL (Empresa Publica de Urbanizacao de Lisboa), EP
Landscape Architecture Joao Nunes (PROAP)
Programme Residential plus ground-floor retail and offices
Housing 29,216 sq.m (304 units) + 27,766 sq.m (308 units)
Offices 1,093 sq.m + 1,024 sq.m
Retail 1,632 sq.m + 1,508 sq.m
Parking 18,610 sq.m + 17,844 sq.m.
Gross Built Area 98,700 sq.m (above grade) and 13,000 sq.m (below grade)
Total Building Cost EUR 36,000,000.00 (Blocks 2 and 3)
Construction Costs EUR 560.00 per sq.m
Project Status 2004 (master planning) – 2011 (1st-phase housing completed)
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ENTRECAMPOS HOUSING
Avenida das Forcas Armadas, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004 – 2011
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ENTRECAMPOS HOUSING
Avenida das Forcas Armadas, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004 – 2011
1st floor plan
Ground floor plan
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ENTRECAMPOS HOUSING
Avenida das Forcas Armadas, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004 – 2011
Site plan
Ground floor plan Typical floor plan
Ground floor plan Typical floor plan
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ENTRECAMPOS HOUSING
Avenida das Forcas Armadas, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004 – 2011
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With the objective of attracting young
residents to offset the increasingly elderly
centre of Lisbon, the municipality’s
regeneration agency launched a large
mixed-use development for an urban
void left vacant from the relocation of
Lisbon’s vast wholesale market. Thus,
the core of this development, –for which
PROMONTORIO developed the master
plan–, was residential and its ancillary
services (street retail and small grade
level offices). Amassing a total of 612
units, two large perimeter 8-storey
blocks with inner courtyards have been
devised to accommodate a wide range
of typologies from studios and 1-bdr, to
2- and 3-bdr units. From an historical
and morphological perspective, the
urban concept follows the 19th-century
perimeter block of the bordering Ressano
Garcia plan, commonly referred to as
“Avenidas Novas”. In terms of public
use, the project generates a continuous
flow from the public sphere of square and
streets into private inner courtyards, also
of public use.
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Despite the steepness of the site, the two
large housing blocks were generated from
an orthogonal grid and then carefully
adapted via landscaping to grade in order
to meet the retail and buildings entrances
with the street incline (3,45%). These
blocks form two sides of the large open
square fronted by the Art Forum, a civic
structure with the highest prominence
in the plan. Likewise, around the blocks,
car circulation is confined to the outer
perimeter of the ensemble, whilst inner
streets are exclusively for pedestrians.
This pedestrian space flows through
archways into the blocks’ inner
courtyards. Avoiding the pitfalls of
mono-functionality associated with large
housing estates, these public courtyards
are accessible at ground level and will
be rented to small offices and open-door
businesses in a self-controlled space that
can be closed after-hours.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
construction budget per square metre
is close to social housing, the project
aimed to endure the normal wearing of
everyday life with dignity, to be able
to accommodate, without stridency or
gratuity, the flow of the quotidian. Under
a banal concrete structural skeleton, an
assemblage of precast concrete U-panels,
combined with anodised aluminium
framing, offers a solid, durable and low
maintenance façade system. At once,
the light gold shade on the frames and
the green and pink pigment on the panels
and the black pigment of the floor level,
emphasize the individuality of each
building and the identity of the ensemble.
Discreet composition variances of the
balcony systems between each façade
have been devised in accordance, not only
to their usefulness and sun orientation,
but also as an additional layer of visual
subtlety in the street perception.