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Câmara Municipal de Ponte de Lima
DESIGN TEAM
Carvalho Araújo
Joel Moniz
Alexandre Branco
Ricardo Tojal
Ana Carvalho
EQUIPMENT
Status
Client
Câmara Municipal de Ponte de Lima
DESIGN TEAM
Carvalho Araújo
Joel Moniz
Alexandre Branco
Ricardo Tojal
Ana Carvalho
The main purpose of this intervention, more than design a skatepark in its most literal sense, was the creation of a square. We proposed a treatment for the interior of a city block, so it can be assumed as a versatile, diverse and intergenerational public space. It was important to set limits, to establish traffic and parking rules and to define a path that connects all the different heighs. The concrete was chosen to organize the space, like an urban or geological “accident” that justifies its use as a skatepark and, at the same time, links the new square with the surrounding urban space. The concrete, the steel and the vegetation were used as a way to get a more strength and durable image. At the limit of the curve and height that are impossible to achieve. It’s like a pre existence that has to be tamed.