Living art: architecture for context

Abstract

The research is focused on the commission placed by the Saint-Gobain company who called architecture students around the world to develop a revitalization project for an area located to the west of the center of the city of Lisbon, along the Tagus River. , belonging to the City Council, anchored in a new cultural activity complemented with residential functions, this due to a loss of the physical and cultural values of the place that lead to the obsolescence of the dynamics of the sector. This aims to clarify the loss of identity within the city of Lisbon, Portugal, a phenomenon that has been evident since the early two thousand, and that currently has affected the relationship with the original population of the city, and of the patrimonial elements that have been losing their cultural and physical vitality. The key point to work on is to identify, first of all, what are the elements that have led to a reduction in the original population in the city of Lisbon, and what have been the reasons why the phenomenon of gentrification has exploded. urban-economic, from this to propose what are the methodological bases in the process of inserting an architectural project in a heritage environment such as the historic center of Lisbon.