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Loures Park - Encosta do Conventinho

Loures Park - Encosta do Conventinho

Urbanism

Location Loures, Lisbon
Year 2020-2022
Area 193,699.25 m²
Phase Completed
Category Infrastructure and Public Spaces

A large-scale urban intervention bringing together landscape, heritage, environment, mobility and ecological structure

South of Loures, some 19 hectares of hillside with wide views over the city give way to a landmark urban intervention. The proposal starts from an integrated reading of the territory, bringing together landscape, heritage, environment and urban ecological structure.

Project type Execution unit
Programme Urban park, business park and housing
Client Câmara Municipal de Loures
Disciplines Urban design, Landscape, Hydraulics, Mobility, Heritage, Infrastructure
3D images Atelier Geometria
Overall aerial view of the execution unit: the EN8 skirting the western edge, the business park aligned along it, the park at the centre with its meadows and play area, and the housing buildings to the east along the watercourse.

Intervention strategy

The project turns an area of strong landscape and environmental value into a structured, accessible and multifunctional urban space. The proposal brings together three independent programmes - urban park, business park and housing - within a shared territorial strategy.

With more than 70% of the land given over to green space, the park gathers paths, viewpoints, recreation areas, meadows and a teaching farm.

Water plays a central role, through the restoration of the Mealhada stream and of the traditional structures for capturing and conveying it. Mobility is reorganised too, with the reprofiling of the EN8, a cycle link, an accessible pedestrian network, boardwalks and coordination with the future metro line.

Render of the proposed scheme seen from the south-west: the EN8 and its roundabout in the foreground, the business park to the left, the urban park at the centre and the housing buildings along the watercourse to the right.

Lines of work

  1. Urban structure
  2. Public space and landscape
  3. Environment and drainage
  4. Mobility and infrastructure
  5. Multidisciplinary coordination
Elliptical gravel square ringed by low dry-stone walls and beds of native species, the teaching allotment in raised beds to the right and the business park beyond.
Tracking shot along the lake edge: the office building with its planted façade beyond, the timber deck and the river beach to the right.
The front of the Loures business park in the late afternoon, with the line of trees along the built edge and the reprofiled EN8 running to the horizon, planted median and cycle lane in place.
The housing buildings seen from the park in the late afternoon: the timber path with a walker and a cyclist on it, the watercourse and its riparian planting and, beyond to the right, the commercial ground floor along the street.
The two housing buildings close up: the continuous balconies with their planters, set on a glazed commercial plinth, and the raised square between them, with steps down to the tree-lined street.
Tracking shot over the lake at sunset, with the footbridge crossing to the housing buildings.

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