"Cozinha Comunitária Terras da Costa" - a Social Architecture project for a community of 500 people

"Cozinha Comunitária Terras da Costa" is a social project promoted by Projeto Warehouse and ateliermob. It addresses to a community of 500 people (including 100 children) that lives without water supply, sanitation and between precarious constructions. This neighborhood with about 30 years of existence ("Terras da Costa") is located near a beach area in the city of Almada, in the outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal.

This project is focused on the construction of a community kitchen and also on the creation of a public space that allows the inhabitants to enjoy leisure and social activities, taking into account that a good part of the adults and children spend the whole day in this location.

In March 2014 the team concluded the first stage of the construction (community kitchen) and assured the water supply to the community, already counting on a set of partnerships, among them with the local City Hall. This work group is working on the establishment of the necessary partnerships and funding to the beginning of the construction's second phase.

The Architecture proposal is composed by a four-modules plan, disposed in "U" shape and with a green space and a children's playground in the central zone. The proposal is composed by the following modules/construction phases:

1 - Closed community kitchen and covered exterior space
2 - Entrance porch, covered multipurpose space and community laundry space
3 - Covered area designed for barbecue facilities and dining tables
4 - Resident's committee room and bathrooms

The project team is reachable to anyone that wants to be part of it. To volunteer for the organization of workshops contact atelier mob through Diana Pereira (between 3:30PM and 6:30PM, Lisbon hour) in the mobile phone +351 91 361 19 08. For voluntary work related with construction contact Ricado Morais from Projecto Warehouse in the mobile phone +351 91 473 52 52. Both atelier mob and Projeto Warehouse are also reachable by e-mail: info@ateliermob.com / projectowarehouse@gmail.com.

Follow the project through its Facebook page, available in the link www.facebook.com/cozinhacomunitariadasterrasdacosta.

aerial view of the neighborhood

cleaning works

disassembly of a structure in Casa do Vapor (collectif EXYZT)

construction of the first module

first module

proposal presented by the work team

A sports and leisure new project for an abandoned football field in Lisbon

The Portuguese Architecture collective "Projeto Warehouse" won the PLAYSCAPES' competition (students category) promoted by Building Trust International. This group of Architecture students proposed a Sports and leisure space built up from wooden pallets to be implemented in an abandoned football field ("Campo das Salésias") in the city of Lisbon. The space was used by the city's football club "Os Belenenses" since 1928 and until 1956, being abandoned since then.

This group of architects intended to present a project that could be viable enough to be executed - in this way "Projeto Warehouse" is now searching for funding to implement this project, being the crowdfunding platforms a starting point. The collective is producing a video in which it is intended to show the perspective of the club's associates and the people that live nearby.

"Projeto Warehouse" was formed with the premise of producing experimental Architecture with a strong practical component and very sensible to the people's actual needs. The collective is planning a series of initiatives like the land's cleaning and the experimental implementation with a very reduced number of pallets - in order to execute the project like it was designed it would be necessary about 1000 wooden pallets.

Vintage image of "Campo das Salésias" and Matateu (legendary "Belenenses" football player), in contrast with today's abandonment situation

Presented proposal by "Projeto Warehouse"

Presented proposal by "Projeto Warehouse"

Below we share the proposal's panels, in which "Projeto Warehouse" established a connection between the space's memory and the content of the proposal, as well as the different wooden pallets elements and respective parts and functions.

Click on the images for a magnified visualization.