LISBON GROUND
Press Kit
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Biennale Architettura 2012 . Common Ground
LISBON GROUND
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THE PORTUGUESE REPRESENTATION
AT THE 13th INTERNATIONAL
ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION
LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
Commissioner/Curator: Inês Lobo
Assistants to the Commissioner: João Rosário and João Vaz
Lisbon Ground is the exhibition that will represent Portugal
at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale
di Venezia. It is a project conceived and developed by the architect Inês Lobo as designated curator by the Portuguese Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes), which is a response
to the theme topic “Common Ground” put forward by the director of this 13th international Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, David Chipperfield.
The curator Inês Lobo asserts that “if we think of cities as
complex and nowadays dysfunctional systems, albeit still one
of mankind’s greatest inventions, then they should be returned
to their inventor. Mobility/access, public space, private space,
programmes, closeness and comfort must be considered to get
those systems working again. This exercise implies recognition/understanding of the city, the invention of a city-dwelling
mode pertinent to these times.”
Lisbon is the main focus of the planned exhibition, from the
standpoint of this city as a “common territory, just one possible meaning of the theme topic ‘Common Ground’”, “a common
area of knowledge, territory shared by a group of thinkers,
which includes people from architecture, cinema, photography,
literature...” in the words of Inês Lobo.
With the precise aim of promoting a future perspective, the
“Lisbon Ground” exhibition also includes the holding of an international public competition to design a project for the
Campo das Cebolas/Doca da Marinha area of the waterfront
in Lisbon’s Baixa Pombalina, organised in partnership with the
Lisbon Municipal Council.
In Lisbon Ground the city is presented by means of three
themes: Lisbon Downtown, Lisbon River and Lisbon Connections.
The Portuguese representation will be on show in the Fundaco
Marcello building located on the Grand Canal between the Rialto and Accademia bridges. The space has an entrance on
the canal for those arriving by boat as well as a street access
for pedestrians.
These three themes arose after reflection and discussion
about a select group of specific works and projects sharing a
territory and common themes – Lisbon. Participants in the
process included well-known architects such as Álvaro Siza
Vieira, Bárbara Rangel, Eduardo Souto Moura, Francisco Mateus, Gonçalo Byrne, Joana Vilhena, João Carrilho da Graça,
João Favila Menezes, João Gomes da Silva, João Nunes, João
Pedro Falcão de Campos, João Simões, José Adrião, Manuel
Graça Dias, Manuel Mateus, Manuel Salgado, Paulo Mendes
da Rocha, Pedro Domingos, Ricardo Bak Gordon, Ricardo Carvalho, Rui Furtado and Rui Mendes.
Image: Duarte Belo, s/t (No title), 2012. Credit: Photo by
Duarte Belo. Design by Atelier Pedro Falcão / Inês Lobo.
Courtesy of Direção-Geral das Artes/Inês Lobo. © Duarte
Belo.
For further informations,
please be so kind to contact:
Mónica Oliveira
Direção-Geral das Artes | Comunicação
The works in question reflect 24 years of intervention in the
city, the time period (1988-2012) on which those reflections
are focused, and serve as raw material for the exhibition’s various components:
Video, by Catarina Mourão, recordings of conversations from
three round-tables that consider the city vis-à-vis the proposed themes, and drawings made by the speakers during
those discussions;
Map of Lisbon indicating “between spaces”, a synthesis register of the city in 2012;
Photographs, by Duarte Belo, which represent and synthesise
the inherent complexity of the city’s design while at the
same time affirming Lisbon as a metropolis with multiple
meanings in the context of European urban culture;
Testimony about the city through selected texts by Antonio
Tabucchi.
Campo Grande 83 – 1º 1700-088 Lisboa
T. (+351) 211 507 010 | F. (+351) 211 507 261
[email protected] / www.dgartes.pt
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List of architectural projects in discussion
LISBON DOWNTOWN
Reconstruction of Chiado
Álvaro Siza Arquitecto SA
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Museum and Numismatic Library of the Bank of Portugal
Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos | Falcão de Campos Arquiteto
Gonçalo Byrne
João Pedro Falcão de Campos
Mude . Design Museum
Ricardo Carvalho + Joana Vilhena Arquitetos
Ricardo Carvalho
Joana Vilhena
Fanqueiros
José Adrião Arquitecto
José Adrião
LISBON RIVER
Coach Museum
PMBP – Paulo Mendes da Rocha arquitectos | MMBB arquitectos | Bak Gordon arquitectos | AFA Consult
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Ricardo Bak Gordon
Rui Furtado
Rehabilitation of the Ribeira das Naus
PROAP – Estudos e Projectos de Arquitectura Paisagista | Global – Arquitectura Paisagista
João Nunes
João Gomes da Silva
Lisbon Cruise Ship Terminal
JLCG Arquitectos Lda
João Luís Carrilho da Graça
LISBON CONNECTIONS
Urban Study for Park Mayer, Botanical Garden and Surroundings
Aires Mateus e Associados
Manuel Mateus
Francisco Mateus
General Plan for Accessibility of Castle Hill
Atelier Bugio
João Favila Menezes
João Simões
Pedro Domingos
Rui Mendes
Príncipe Real
Souto de Moura Arquitectos
Eduardo Souto de Moura
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La Biennale
di Venezia
LISBON GROUND
Architecture
Álvaro Siza Vieira, Bárbara Rangel, Catarina Mourão ,Duarte Belo,
Eduardo Souto Moura, Francisco Aires Mateus, Gonçalo Byrne, Joana Vilhena,
João Favila, João Gomes da Silva, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, João Nunes,
João Pedro Falcão de Campos, João Simões, José Adrião, Manuel Aires Mateus,
Manuel Graça Dias, Manuel Salgado, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Pedro Domingos,
Ricardo Bak Gordon, Ricardo Carvalho, Rui Furtado, Rui Mendes
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Curated by Inês Lobo
29 August – 25 November 2012
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LUZ
CARNIDE
TELHEIRAS
BENFICA
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PORTELA
CAMPO GRANDE
1C
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LISBON GROUND
Common territory is just one possible meaning of ‘Common
Ground’, a common area of knowledge, territory shared by a
group of thinkers. What I essentially propose is to discuss
modes of action and ways to transform the territory.
LISBON RIVER
Coach Museum
PMBP – Paulo Mendes da Rocha arquitectos |
MMBB arquitectos | Bak Gordon arquitectos | AFA Consult
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Ricardo Bak Gordon
Rui Furtado
If we think of cities as complex and nowadays dysfunctional
systems, albeit still one of mankind’s greatest inventions,
then they should be returned to their inventor. Public space,
private space, access/mobility, programmes, closeness and
comfort must be considered to get those systems working
again. This exercise implies recognition/understanding of the
city, the invention of a city-dwelling mode pertinent to these
times.
Rehabilitation of the Ribeira das Naus
PROAP – Estudos e Projectos de Arquitectura Paisagista |
Global – Arquitectura Paisagista
João Nunes
João Gomes da Silva
We can look at the city as an abandoned and thus prematurely
aged organism or as an open system upholding the clear relationship with its original territory, containing years of history
and memory that should be revealed.
Lisbon Cruise Ship Terminal
JLCG Arquitectos Lda
João Luís Carrilho da Graça
The common ground is Lisbon (Lisbon Ground): a group of actions about this territory of different times and purposes are
gathered in this reflection space which is the Venice Biennale.
LISBON CONNECTIONS
Urban Study for Park Mayer, Botanical Garden
and Surroundings
Aires Mateus e Associados
Manuel Mateus
Francisco Mateus
I propose to have Lisbon spoken of vis-à-vis three theme topics:
1. Lisbon downtown; 2. Lisbon river; 3. Lisbon connections.
These will be associated to specific projects/constructions
that share a territory and common themes, reflecting on a period of 24 years (1988-2012). They all transform by finding new
places for people and are all able to reveal “those ignored interstices of the bodies of cities”.
General Plan for Accessibility of Castle Hill
Atelier Bugio
João Favila Menezes
João Simões
Pedro Domingos
Rui Mendes
LISBON DOWNTOWN
Reconstruction of Chiado
Álvaro Siza Arquitecto SA
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Príncipe Real
Souto de Moura Arquitectos
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Museum and Numismatic Library of the Bank of Portugal
Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos | Falcão de Campos Arquiteto
Gonçalo Byrne
João Pedro Falcão de Campos
Mude . Design Museum
Ricardo Carvalho + Joana Vilhena Arquitetos
Ricardo Carvalho
Joana Vilhena
Fanqueiros
José Adrião Arquitecto
José Adrião
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The Lisbon Ground proposal is for discussion/reflection about
the city to be accomplished using various supports and simultaneously by representatives of different disciplines:
video, photography, cartography, literature.
levels. In the first level a group of architectural works chosen
to take part in the exhibition are photographed, the theme
topic being Common Ground – Lisbon. In the second the city
of Lisbon will be photographed, in the extended space around
the projects, the common ground and matrix of the city’s
buildings. In a third level a photographic record of the architecture firms and architects of the selected works is proposed.
The aim of this third level of photos, to be done in the architects’ working spaces, is to show places akin to small cells
within the urban fabric from which the city is produced, or the
urban space of a future humanity. These are the places of creativity, the future. The group of three levels of photos should
represent and synthesise in a way understandable to the nonspecialist public the overall complexity of the city’s design and
simultaneously put forward Lisbon as a metropolis of multiple
significance in the context of a European urban culture.
The idea is to produce a photographic register of documentary
nature to record structural aspects of the selected architectural
works and the city around them, but also details of its various
constituent areas, as well as aspects of the contexts of the
buildings, both inside and outside space. The descriptive outlook
will be accompanied by a sensitive outlook or the search for the
differential nature of the various works and urban sections.
VIDEO
Recordings are made of conversations at three round tables
that discuss the city based on the proposed theme topics and
selected work. The drawings produced during the talks are
also recorded. Catarina Mourão
Lisbon downtown
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Gonçalo Byrne
João Pedro Falcão de Campos
Ricardo Carvalho
Joana Vilhena
José Adrião
Manuel Salgado
Lisbon river
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Ricardo Bak Gordon
Rui Furtado
João Nunes
João Gomes da Silva
João Luís Carrilho da Graça
Manuel Graça Dias
Objective
The group of photographs is meant to set the architectural
works and territory in the present time, thereby configuring an
image base to support the Portuguese participation in the
Venice Biennale while at the same time encouraging reflection
about architecture and the city of Lisbon. The photos to submit,
rigorously and skilfully taken, should be arranged as an organised and systematic archive to be used for multiple purposes,
from supporting activities associated to intervention in the exhibition and publishing space, to publicising digitally or in print
the urban landscape and architecture of the city of Lisbon.
Lisbon connections
Manuel Mateus
Francisco Mateus
João Favila Menezes
João Simões
Pedro Domingos
Rui Mendes
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Barbara Rangel
Methodology
The methodology to develop is based on the care taken, starting with the drawings, to systematically ‘sweep’ the entire
breadth of the urban space and the various buildings, specifically the latter’s plans.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Materials
All the photos taken during the work will be submitted in low resolution (900x600px, .jpg format) so that a more limited selection
can later be chosen jointly with those responsible for the initiative. They will then be digitally edited and delivered in high resolution to correspond to their purpose. Right now it is hard for
me to estimate the number of photos to take, though my experience in similar projects leads me to believe that the initial
number of photos should be more than 10,000 (ten thousand).
Group of photos meant to fix the architectural works and territory in the present time, thereby comprising an image data
base meant to stimulate reflection about the architecture and
city of Lisbon. The pictures should be arranged as an organised and systematic archive of Lisbon’s urban landscape and
architecture. Duarte Belo.
Concept
The concept grounding the proposal derives from the project
for a photographic register to be done for the Portuguese participation in the 13th International Architecture Exhibition –
Biennale di Venezia.
The photographic work will be accomplished at three different
MAP
Lisbon “the between spaces” – synthesis register of the city
in 2012.
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STAT E M E N TS
execution and coordination of infrastructures should ensure
that the various surface equipment and components are compatible with the public space design. The master infrastructure plan should thus indicate that it guarantees compatibility
vis-à-vis the various networks below ground. Noteworthy are
the specific characteristics of this space, whose diversity associated to the valuable built-up area around it should be appreciated and safeguarded.
Antonio Tabucchi’s Lisbon
A selection of texts by Antonio Tabucchi are recited and will
be heard in Venice.
COMPETITION
The exhibition starts the reflection about a territory – a competition launched in partnership with the Lisbon Municipal
Council. That reflection is extended to all the participants, allowing it to continue throughout the Biennale.
Deadlines
Competition launched by the end of June 2012.
Proposals delivered by mid-September 2012.
Description
International public competition to design a project for the
Campo das Cebolas/Doca da Marinha area by the waterfront
in central Lisbon’s Baixa Pombalina.
THE EXHIBITION
The exhibition of the Portuguese representation at the Venice
Biennale will be held in the Fondaco Marcello building, located by the Grand Canal between the Rialto Bridge and the
Academia Bridge on the axis of circulation linking those two
crossing points.
Area of intervention
The intervention space encompasses the Campo das Cebolas,
Doca da Marinha and surrounding area. It is bounded to the
west by the buildings on the Praça do Comércio, to the north
by the Rua dos Bacalhoeiros/Rua Cais de Santarém, to the
east by the small street connecting the Rua Cais de Santarém
to Avenida Infante Dom Henrique (marking the eastern
boundary of Campo das Cebolas) and to the south by the Doca
da Marinha and the waterfront.
The study that is the subject of the design competition concerns a large area of public space with two distinct aspects:
1. Proposal for the Public Space of the Campo das Cebolas/
Doca da Marinha, constituting the area from the Doca da Marinha front to the buildings along Rua dos Bacalhoeiros;
2. Urban and architectural study for the block labelled Block
Q1 delimited by Rua do Instituto Virgílio Machado, Avenida Infante Dom Henrique, Rua da Alfândega and Campo das Cebolas and within the competition area.
This single-storey building comprises two contiguous spaces.
An entrance clearly relating to the Grand Canal provides access to those arriving by boat via two mooring stations, Pontile Marcello and Pontile Gondolieri, as well as pedestrian
access from the street.
The second space is rectangular and measures approximately
15x17 metres. Its central element is the exposed wooden roof
structure made of triangular trusses borne by two lines of
stone pillars parallel to the space’s orientation and also by the
side walls.
Strategic Objectives
The design of the project for Campo das Cebolas/Doca da
Marinha shall comply with the principles and actions set out
by the Lisbon Municipal Council, specifically regarding the
uniformity/hierarchy of surfacing materials for the public
space and all other aspects associated to the design of those
public spaces as well as the urban study for Block Q1 included in the competition area.
The intervention area is located in the parish of the Cathedral
(Sé) and covers an area of about 46,100.00 m², zoned as follows:
1. Public Space Campo da Cebolas/Doca da Marinha –
41,100.00 m²;
2. Block Q1 – 5,000.00 m².
The project design includes the urban and landscape component and coordination of the associated specialties, namely
reestablishment and integration of all existing and planned
infrastructures according to the set aims and principles. The
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Inês Lobo’s Biography
Exhibitions And Representations
Inês Lobo set up her own firm in 2002, after working for the
architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça from 1990 to 1996 and
forming a partnership with the architect Pedro Domingos from
1996 to 2001. Since graduating from the Technical University
of Lisbon in 1989 she lectured project design and is presently
a guest lecturer in architecture at Lisbon Autonomous University (since 1997).
Her studio has developed projects in different areas of activity, ranging from the construction of infrastructures and housing to the renovation of public spaces and buildings.
The firm’s work is based on continual joint reflection by specialists and designers from diverse fields, assuring in all project phases a broad, multiple and concerted approach to all
issues associated to construction of that territory.
2009 Official Portuguese representation at the 8th International Architecture Biennale in São Paulo
2009 Overlappings: Six Portuguese Architecture Studios
2004 14 Architects: Projects at Bom Sucesso in Óbidos
2004 Participation in the Portuguese representation
(metaflux) at the Venice Biennale
2004 Participation in the Portuguese representation at the
Milan Triennale
2004 Habitar Portugal Exhibition (Lisbon and Porto)
2002 Influx 0.3 recent Portuguese architecture
Major Projects
2012 Urban study for Santana Hill, Lisbon
2011/12 Public competition to design a project for the BIOMED III Building of Health Sciences Pole III at the University
of Coimbra – 1st place
2011 Urban Study for Capuchos Hospital, Lisbon
2010 Proposal (competition for conception, construction and
operation) for student residences in Évora
2010 Rehabilitation of Dr. Mário Sacramento Secondary
School, Aveiro
2009 Second phase (competition limited by prior qualification) of Science Museum of the University of Coimbra – 3rd
prize
2008.09 Reuse of Joaquim Carvalho Secondary School,
Figueira da Foz
2008.09 Reuse of Rodrigues Lobo Secondary School, Leiria
2007.08 Reuse of Avelar Brotero Secondary School, Coimbra
2006 Project (competition limited by prior qualification) for
reuse old Leões Factory – art and architecture complex of the
University of Évora – 1st place
2006 Project (competition limited by prior qualification) for
new Public Library and Regional Archive of Angra do Heroísmo
and Offices of the Regional Directorate of Culture – 1st place
2005.06 Project for headquarters of an audiovisual producer
in Lisbon (GarageFilms)
2004.05 Project (public competition) for building and swimming pool of the Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education in Pole II of the University of Coimbra – 1st place
2004 18 terraced houses at Bom Sucesso – Design Resort,
Leisure Golf & SPA in Óbidos
2003 Reuse of building for the Museum and Residential Complex of the Order of St John of God in Portugal, Telhal, Sintra
1998 Project (international public competition) for chancery
and residence of the future Embassy of Portugal in Berlin –
1st place (co-designed with the architect Pedro Domingos)
1998.02 Project (public competition) for the Amphitheatres
Complex of the campus of the University of the Azores, Ponta
Delgada – 1st place (co-designed with the architect Pedro
Domingos)
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Nominations And Prizes
2012 Jury for the 2012 FAD Prize
2012 Portuguese delegate to the 8th Iberian-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennale, Cádiz 2012 [estando la mar
por medio
2011 Selection for the Mies van der Rohe Prize (Rodrigues
Lobo Secondary School, Leiria)
2005 Selection for the Mies van der Rohe Prize (Amphitheatres Complex in the Azores)
2004 Selection for the 2004 Secil Prize: Special Jury Prize
(Amphitheatres Complex in the Azores)
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For further informations,
please be so kind to contact:
Mónica Oliveira
Direção-Geral das Artes | Comunicação
Campo Grande 83 – 1º 1700-088 Lisboa
T. (+351) 211 507 010 | F. (+351) 211 507 261
[email protected] / www.dgartes.pt
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La Biennale
di Venezia
LISBON GROUND
Architecture
Álvaro Siza Vieira, Bárbara Rangel, Catarina Mourão ,Duarte Belo,
Eduardo Souto Moura, Francisco Aires Mateus, Gonçalo Byrne, Joana Vilhena,
João Favila, João Gomes da Silva, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, João Nunes,
João Pedro Falcão de Campos, João Simões, José Adrião, Manuel Aires Mateus,
Manuel Graça Dias, Manuel Salgado, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Pedro Domingos,
Ricardo Bak Gordon, Ricardo Carvalho, Rui Furtado, Rui Mendes
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Curated by Inês Lobo
29 August – 25 November 2012
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