New Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça
18/07/2019.
Finalist project for the 11th BIAU [Santa Apolónia - Lisbon] Portugal
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João Luís Carrilho da Graça designs the new Cruise Terminal in Lisbon, looking at the city and located "backs" to the river. The purpose of the volume is to create a transition between the river and the city, using its large terrace open to the outside.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by Rita Burmester.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by Rita Burmester.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by Rita Burmester.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by Rita Burmester.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by Rita Burmester.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by Rita Burmester.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Photograph by FG+SG.
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Site plan. Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça.
Ground floor plan. Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça.
Level 1 plan. Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça.
Roof plan. Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça.
Level -1 plan. Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça.
Section. Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça.
Section. Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça.
Elevation. Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça.
Elevation. Lisbon Cruise Terminal by João Luís Carrilho da Graça.
The project by João Luís Carrilho da Graça, acts as a base for the city with key access points that allow visual relationships between users and the river and city. In addition, the Cruise Terminal has a concrete structure with cork that adds lightness to the weight of the building.
Description of project by João Luís Carrilho da Graça
On the Alfama slope, Lisbon is an amphitheatre looking out into the Tagus estuary. At the foot of the hill, on the flats of the early 20th century landfill of the port, the building of the new Cruise Terminal echoes, and returns, the gaze: a small amphitheatre, apparently with its back to the river, looks back at the city.
Compact (the smallest of the buildings presented to the 2010 international competition), it is inserted, with the open-air car park and the tidal tank, between the walls of the landfilled former Jardim do Tabaco dock, seeming no to touch the ground, between the trees of the Park/Boulevard that, along with the building, now inhabit this stretch of the river front. Raised from the ground, it lifts the public space along with itself, transformed into a terrace/viewpoint, abstract topography, between river and city, like a transshipment raft that connects and reveals both.
The programme of the terminal is housed under this shell, raised ground: car park underground (connected to de open-air car park); luggage delivery, processing and claim, at ground level; passengers (check-in, waiting lounge, VIP lounge, duty-free shopping, public access coffee shop) in the upper level; all flexible spaces, as are those of the Park/Boulevard, that allow for the future evolution of the terminal, as for events of other nature to take place outside the hours, and seasons, of its use as a maritime station.
This sort of exoskeleton, that encircles the areas assigned to the terminal’s programme, is built of structural withe concrete with cork, a solution specifically developed to lighten the building’s weight, limited by the preexisting foundations, stemming from a concept by Carrilho da Graça originally for experimentadesign, the Lisbon design biennale, with a particular haptic quality, and that lightens up with the sunlight reflected on the estuary, the famous "light of Lisbon".
Virtually blind on the river side, from where the building appears as a discreet stony socle of the city, and creasing, on the city side, just enough to reveal its access points, the building mediates the visual relations between its users and the river and city: in a building that is used almost always in motion, along the gangway, in the loggias that give access to the ships or from these to descend directly into the city, walking on the rooftop, on the tangential approaches to the main façade, the gaze wanders, cinematic.
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Architect
João Luís Carrilho da Graça
Coordinator
Francisco Freire
Competition Team
Paulo Costa, Yutaka Shiki, Gonçalo Baptista, João Jesus, Mariana Sanchez Salvador, Nuno Castro Caldas, architects; Nuno Pinto, designer; Paulo Barreto, Vanda Neto, models
Project team
Luis Cordeiro, Nuno Pinho, Pedro Ricciardi, Paulo Costa, Yutaka Shiki, Filipe Homem, Charbel Saad, Nuno Castro Caldas, Ana Teresa Hagatong, Ana Bruto da Costa, arquitectos; Carlo Vincelli, modelação 3D; Nuno Pinto, desenhador; Paulo Barreto, maquetes
Collaborators
Landscape Architecture.- Global Arquitectura Paisagista Lda. Communication Design.- P-06 atelier. Structural Engineering, Hydraulic And Gas Engineering, People And Cargo Transports, Electrical, Telecommunications, Security Systems And Lighting Planning.- Fase - Estudos e Projectos SA. Mechanical, Thermal And Acoustic Engineering.- NaturalWorks - Projectos de Engenharia Lda. Maritime Hydraulics.- Consulmar - Projectistas e Consultores Lda.
Environment And Sustainability.- Nemus - Gestão e Requalificação Ambiental Lda.
Client
APL - Administração do Porto de Lisboa / LCT - Lisbon Cruise Terminals (concessionário)
Area
12,440 m²
Dates
Completed 2018
Photographers
João Luís Carrilho da Graça
João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Born in Portalegre (Portugal, 1952), he graduated in Architecture at the Superior School of Fine Arts in Lisbon, in 1977, and since that moment he has run his own office. Between 1977 and 1992, he was an assistant at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon and since 2001 he has been a visiting professor in the Architecture Department of the Autonomous University of Lisbon and the University of Évora since 2005. He has developed pedagogical activity In different universities, seminars and conferences around the world.
An important figure in contemporary Portuguese architecture, his numerous works include the Lisbon School of Music, the Information and Documentation Center of the Palace of Belém, the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas of the Expo of Lisbon'98 and the Museum of Orient
His work has received numerous international prizes, among them the SECIL Prize of Architecture, by the University of Studies of Communication and Media (1994); The Valmor Prize (1998) and the FAD Prize (1999), for the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas in the World Exhibition; The Valmor Prize (2008), by the Music School of Lisbon; The Prize Piranesi of Rome (2010), for the museum of the archaeological zone of the New Castle St. George Square; The Frate-Sole European Prize for Sacred Architecture (2012) by the Church of San Antonio in Porto Alegre, and the AIT Transport Award (2012). In addition to several nominations for the European architectural award "Mies Van der Rohe".
He has also received several awards for his complete work, such as the International Prize for Art Critics (1992), Order of Merit of the Portuguese Republic (1999), the Premio Pessoa (2008), the distinction of Knight of Arts and Letters of The French Republic (2010), the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture (2012) and the recognition of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2015).
An important figure in contemporary Portuguese architecture, his numerous works include the Lisbon School of Music, the Information and Documentation Center of the Palace of Belém, the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas of the Expo of Lisbon'98 and the Museum of Orient
His work has received numerous international prizes, among them the SECIL Prize of Architecture, by the University of Studies of Communication and Media (1994); The Valmor Prize (1998) and the FAD Prize (1999), for the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas in the World Exhibition; The Valmor Prize (2008), by the Music School of Lisbon; The Prize Piranesi of Rome (2010), for the museum of the archaeological zone of the New Castle St. George Square; The Frate-Sole European Prize for Sacred Architecture (2012) by the Church of San Antonio in Porto Alegre, and the AIT Transport Award (2012). In addition to several nominations for the European architectural award "Mies Van der Rohe".
He has also received several awards for his complete work, such as the International Prize for Art Critics (1992), Order of Merit of the Portuguese Republic (1999), the Premio Pessoa (2008), the distinction of Knight of Arts and Letters of The French Republic (2010), the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture (2012) and the recognition of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2015).
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