Santos
Outdoor furniture for Jardim de Santos
Lisboa, EXD'09
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"Linked with the concept “It’s About Time…” to promote a legacy for the city, in 2009 ExperimentaDesign is developing a complete rehabilitation project in close collaboration with the Lisbon City Hall. Jardim de Santos, a small garden in a bustling city district, is the object of a major, design-driven urban intervention that aims to fully realize the site’s untapped potential. Conceived by a team of Portuguese creatives, the intervention features user-centered, integrated strategies and solutions in Landscape will be the object of a complete urban restructuring Intervention, including Landscape Architecture, New Urban Equipment Design, Light Design and a totally new system of communication design and signage, in a straight articulation with the Lisbon City Hall.
The main objective of the urban intervention on Santos Garden is the requalification of the area in a perspective of integration with its close environment, but also with the remaining cityscape, using design as the operative discipline for strategic development.
The intervention will rebuild a green area in the Portuguese capital, which is presently dysfunctional. Geared towards the creation of a contemporary, cosmopolitan and creative area, the intervention will link green areas with architecture and contemporary design, opening the garden to new possibilities of enjoyment with a sound potential for interactive dynamics. This project should sustainably contribute to the development of the Santos area and become a text-book example of the impact of design on public space. Reconfigured and attuned to today’s changing lifestyles, Jardim de Santos will become a valuable public space and an added value for the city’s social, economic and cultural dynamics."