Indulto Á Ponte From

Indulto Á Ponte born out of material responsibility. Being Able to show us that a sustainable project is not about building with renewable materials; this project plot addresses the issue of reconversion, of what to do with those materials that seem to have consumed their useful life and there is no other way to address them than the polluting scrapping.

The project doesn´t start with an invented narrative; it begins when the President of Portugal Infrastructures estimates just 50 more years of useful life for perhaps the most important monument in all Lisbon. 2,700 steel tons as a free construction material, which, thanks to its recycling, will not emit 10,000 tons of CO2 and can be given as a gift to the city of Lisbon by reintegrating the bridge into the urban context. The project is now considered a process, encompassing everything from the technical to the creative part of the design. Starting with the dismantling and pick up of the pieces. These are transferred to the workshop element, located on the industrial coast near Alcántara neighborhood, which allows to analyze, solve the pathologies and prepare the pieces for their diffusion and final implantation in the city. At the exit of this workshop, the original sections begin to vary in morphology. The design of the project will be the structural material doing its work. Implanting the new structure that transforms the pieces into optimal, rigid and habitable elements. Obtaining as a result, structural framing, where we are able to recognize the original pieces, and at the same time, the added structure, necessary to house its new structural function. Knowing the system, we start the last part of the project, how to use the pieces of the bridge and the type of implementations that can result. The Lisbon City Council publishes every year the sites in need of intervention, what better than to link the gift of these pieces to these spaces? The project describes three interventions in Lisbon, but the most beautiful thing is that there could be 3 or there could be 30, they could be large artifacts or host more domestic scales, being completely different narratives but certainly implicit in the project. The Result: A bridge that has given up its parts, that is now younger. A monument that is no longer only observed from far, but we are touching it at the same time, recognizing where it comes from. What was once a bridge is now city and the monument still in Lisbon.