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-An old fashion type of project, using drawing skills, simple ideas and straight lines that connect spaces inside the site, it shows how a closed site can (re)live at the heart of Évora city. This was an university parking, and here we stablish a new kind of living, with shadows and substancial rest/chill zones. The climate on Évora is very rigid, so we suggest some details to enjoy all year in Évora, such as, some fresheness within (beside the shadow - evergreen and deciduos trees) we propose grass spots to acctually add freshness to the site on hotter days. On the opposite, we have materials, such as, corten steel to add some temperature on colder days, even if it’s just a vision detail.

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Masterplan

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-On this section we see that with time, trees and the others elements of the masterplan, the subject will be guided by the straight lines predefined. This section with perpective direct the subject to main entrance of the building. We can also see the variety of vegetation within the site. Starting with grass and Cor-taderia, and ending up with Magnolia and Schinus, the site gains live and a singular rich-ness.

-On this section we can observe the trees that were selected to the site. Among other kind of bushes and annuals, the Schinnus molle, the Magnolia grandiflora and the Cercis siliquastrum are the kinds of trees that provide color and life all year along.We can also see how the terrain modeling will provide attractive spots on sunny days. A light slope enables the utents of this building to lay down and enjoy breef moments of peace.

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-Along with a plant that descriminate wich and where the pavements material are, we show how to proceed with it’s construction (also drawed by hand).

-The first shows the detail of the curb between the cubic granit pave-ment and irregular granit pavement (with specifications about founda-tions and mortar)

-Below is the constructive detail of the cubic granit pavement, that ilus-trates the specifications of terrain compactation, tout-venant and rock powder and its measures.

-Upside and rigth, there is the constructive detail of the irregular granit pavement. It looks like the cubic granit pavement the only difference is really the pavement that will be used.

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-Évora is a city with tourism potential, and so one entrance in Évora eis definitly the Train Station. On this project we needed to create a site where people have enough space to walk around, suficiente parking lots, and because of the rigid climate os Alentejo, shadow and fresheness were crucial point to be remembered.An avenue full with trees that build lines and end up on the main plaza where the architectural characteristics of the train sta-tion stand out. Several platforms, carefully placed, enablepeople to walk aornd and stand on different floors, allowing them to experience varios spaces: cafeteria, shadow, grass, central plaza, walking flux. The vegetation was chosen in order to create a dinamic all year around and connecting spaces visualy.

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Phragmites australis

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MasterPlan-Here we resume the concept of multifunctional landscape by including the function of protection production and recreation. This goal will be achieved through a contiuity that is established through shafts that extend the urban mesh “ripping” through the countryside and the relation between fullness and emptiness, the open and closed, the nearness and distance. This landscape reassesses itself, becomes self-sustaining and experience once again, revealing new relations and processes.

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The “theme structure” that holds a great part of the project’s concept.

The main recreation site. Requalifying the neighborhood old farm made possible for a new comunity park.

The section shows the relation between emptiness and fullness, causing the individous to have a notion of scale. This feeling is very typical in Alentejo (characteristic that we recreate on this project).

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On this project, beside giving to people a way to interact with the nature, we established several connections through the Alpedriche’s shores.This bridge, and also a privileged view point. is the detail on this project with most weigth and importance. Cutting through a neighborhood, a big grassfield and finnally the riparian gallery, ending on a horizont purelly from Alentejo.This transition is the concept of the whole mais idea from this project: connecting two different reallities, the urban with the rural.Here is a perspective on the brigde, where a plaza is the background of it. Equiped with a cafeteria and skate-park obects, this plaza becomes an important familiarity point on the neighborhood.Below is the Section that makes us realize the dimension of the bridge/view point.