The project site is located between two of Lisbon’s urban character shapers: the Santa Catarina Hill and the Tagus River. The project area is also located in one of the cultural clusters, a hub of particularly intense nightlife. The project highlights local values: culture; nightlife; the Miradouro (Lisbon’s observation hills); water and the urban gathering. We bind our territory to the existing fabric, drawing a new axis that constructs a binary system. This system combines the contexts of the local topography and the cultural district, and overcomes the urban boundaries. The binary system is divided into: fast urban crossing – cultural and slow urban exploration – recreational routes. The cultural route connects the nearest cultural sites, while the recreational route connects nearby food establishments, bars and clubs.

The project aims to develop seamless connectivity through the landscape; to develop proximity-based urbanism and to ensure a safe night-time experience with new points of social interests. The building site includes four main zones: a romanticised zone for relaxation; a main linear zone in the middle of the site; a separate museum zone and a playground area for children. Links to the museum are provided throughout the site. The newly designed residential apartment building grows into a bipolar structure – a threshold – between the emerging offices and the functions of the city’s new audiovisual museum. The apartment block takes on the role of a boundary between a fully public and a semi-private life. It therefore responds to the surrounding functional adjacencies, connecting them with its organized spaces: rooftop, passage and amphitheatre.

Type: residential, educational

Area: 8 000 m²

Year: 2023

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Team: Rokas Jonušas, Gabrielius Dovydėnas, Jonas Vyšniauskas