Elevated Moscavide

MASTER’S PROJECT
FACULDADE DE ARQUITETURA, UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
TUTOR: CARLOS ALBERTO ASSUNÇÃO GARLIC

Moscavide is situated in the municipality of Loures in the metropolitan area of Lisbon.  During the 1940s and 50s, Moscavide underwent an accelerated urbanisation process due to a large influx of economic migrants from the countryside. High demand for real estate led to any empty plots being given over to buildings, creating dense urban spaces, narrow streets and little to no green and communal spaces. 

Elevating Moscavide aims to transform Moscavide into an open public space devoted to stimulating new ways of exploring and navigating the district. The proposed walkway infrastructure aims to create green corridors, allowing for new interactions of several communal functions categorised into different zones: Entertainment; Cultural; Commercial; Church and Market. 

The infrastructure aims to create a collective space as an extension to the traditional street, creating a new urban layer and introducing typologies that brings the neighbourhood together on a social, cultural and economic layer. 

The proposed interventions are of four different types:  

• Refurbishment and building over existing;
• Demolishing old structures and building new buildings; 
• Urban fillers;
• Gateways into repurposed courtyards.