Ponce de Leão Paulouro Architecture, Urban Research and Design
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Solar Garden
Competition entry for “Solar Park South”, Solar Garden proposes a photo-bioreactor park built upon the disused viaducts and highway of Calabria.
The park follows a modular construction approach starting with an array of new public lighting fixtures dotted along the coastline and a central bioreactor hanging garden on Favazzina viaduct, a true eco-lighthouse for the region.
IdHotel
The hotel has always been the stage of multiple identities and multi-national relations, but it is also the most foreign and alien home for those who inhabit it. In this project the hotel is seen as a potential device to preserve, display, and redistribute multiple identities into the centre of the city. The proposal expands on the concept of perpetual movement and transit already present within its travelling guests, channelling the energy of travellers into a requirement of use and dwelling in both the hotel space, and the city. Through this channelled and subsequently redistributed movement, a confrontation of both the city and the multiple identities of the hotel guests is effected.
Sparks
Communication can be a tool of urban re-qualification. In this project, urban voids are used as generators and walled-off machine elements for an urban social re-qualification. By releasing a web of energy cables onto the streets, directions, happenings, and flows can be implied and connected, thereby converging and materializing into a physical space in which this social re-qualification can take place.
Stultifera Navis
The Ship of Fools was a 15th Century invention – it was the first active ritual to expel unwanted figures and protect moral values. It was, in many ways, the precursor of social hospitals, prisons, and eventually, 20th Century modernist urbanisation. Spaces of confinement have normally been studied from an external point of view – they were little more than spaces of exclusion. But they can also be spaces where “souls succumb to the temptations of the world”. This is the premise of an urban confinement structure built on the outskirts of Lisbon.
Divided Playground
Suburban development tends to follow the same strategies of the gold rush, military conquests, and civilian outpost settlements. The demarcation and appropriation of space with walled areas form a vital part in the physical and social development of the suburban city. Certain hidden and psychological walls however, form a much greater part in the racial and social segregation of suburbia. This playground proposes the elimination of social and racial divisions through the creation of dividing walls and borders.
Hedera
Operating with new techniques and methods of urban intervention, conflict and negotiation are used as spatial practices. A new machine inhabitant is built in Berlin: one which grows, dies, creates or steals spaces, interacts and interconnects on an urban and cultural scale. An animate form that grows and learns with the Turkish community of Kreuzberg.
Morse Market
Com o Mercado Morse pretende-se revitalizar um equipamento, usando custos controlados que permita, dinamizá-lo e multiplicar as suas funcionalidades, sem nunca esquecer as suas origens, permitindo um uso lúdico e cultural. É como principal objectivo, não apenas devolver o conceito de mercado, mas também criar um equipamento activo na melhoria da qualidade de vida dos habitantes de Ermesinde.
M.Id.
Multiple Identities in urban systems are investigated in New Orleans through social attraction grid systems, spatial grids and urban constructions, and identity-driven cultural dislocations. What is proposed is the elimination of types, beliefs, colour and culture through extreme emotional and physical conditions in the construction of an underground labyrinth of social connections in the center of New Orleans.