Mouraria Square

Abstract

It is alongside a requalified urban section that, years later and aside from the Mouraria’s Action Plan, it was born the project of a square connecting Palma Street to Benformoso Street, integrating a set of public squares that mark the pathway. The program for the new square found its guidelines on the site characteristics. The area is a frontier between two urban realities, that can also serve as an opportunity to bring together and put in contact two different social and cultural worlds. The architectural design process takes a personal approach, believing that this is a result of a broad and ambitious reading of reality, while facing its complexity, multifaceted, and consistent vision to then transform the real world. The exercise of critical thinking, which is the corner stone of our design process, feeds a systematic assessment of expected solutions and their efficiency, and the necessity of an eventual revision.