Ateneu Comercial de Lisboa: restructuring a public artery

Abstract

The work will be divided into three parts. The first theory, where reflections are made on the public space in the city as an element of the whole generator; the city as a system, based on the Urban Structuring study of the architects Alison and Peter Smithson; to sum up, the reflection of light and water elements which not only influenced, how were points of departure for formalizing plastic project. Then, in chapter Analyses, is made in macro scale a landscape study of the city of Lisbons addressing the morphological and territorial elements that constitute and define. In the last chapter Practice, is the culmination of the first two chapters in the development of a project for the construction of the Ateneu commercial of Lisbon, where a public program reborn as a urban knit artery, radically transforming the lives of not only the location but also the city. The work will be divided into three parts. The first theory, where reflections are made on the public space in the city as an element of the whole generator; the city as a system, based on the Urban Structuring study of the architects Alison and Peter Smithson; to sum up, the reflection of light and water elements which not only influenced, how were points of departure for formalizing plastic project. Then, in chapter Analyses, is made in macro scale a landscape study of the city of Lisbons addressing the morphological and territorial elements that constitute and define. In the last chapter Practice, is the culmination of the first two chapters in the development of a project for the construction of the Ateneu commercial of Lisbon, where a public program reborn as a urban knit artery, radically transforming the lives of not only the location but also the city.