Abstract

LEITE, João Silva; FERNANDES, Sérgio  and  JUSTO, Rui. Marvila LAB: imagining collective housing in Lisbon. CIDADES [online]. 2024, n.sp24, pp.63-80.  Epub May 06, 2024. ISSN 2182-3030.  https://doi.org/10.15847/cct.33475.

Farms, factories, silos, cranes, old warehouses, convents, streets, paths, passages, small squares... From large infrastructures to the fragmented housing fabric, the urban space of Lisbon's eastern riverfront is constituted as a complex and extremely heterogeneous concoction. Given the need to anticipate the fragmentation trend and the irreversible discontinuity between fabrics, memories and elements that constitute the place, we propose to investigate possible futures to discuss the lack of housing in Lisbon by updating and valuing pre-existences and by using urban and architectural strategies such as recycling, adaptation and reuse. Taking an international design workshop as a framework, the article presents the results developed by this pedagogical experience that takes Marvila as a laboratory to reflect on housing systems that break the rigid limits between architectural objects and the city. The workshop is based on the results produced by the research project “Building Typology” (FCT: PTDC/ART-DAQ/30110/2017), to propose a discussion with students about collective housing strategies and the forms of articulation between the built and the public space, where collective spaces emerge as spaces of transition, but also as meeting and sharing places. Five distinct types of abandoned buildings located in the eastern part of Lisbon - warehouse, convent, factory, palace, working-class villas - were adopted as the object of study to rethink five alternative ways of living: Atelier House, Minimum House, Common House, Dispersed House, Recovery House. The workshop sought to systematize housing hypotheses where the building typology and the housing program are the support for the creation of architectural-urban scenarios that reconfigure the surrounding urban habitat.

Keywords : Marvila; urban regeneration; reuse; collective housing; building typology.

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