{"headings":["City Entry Landmarks","Reimagined Welcome","Plaza","A Floating Marvel","Diverse Space Needs","Thermal Protection","Volumetric Subtractions","Sun-Kissed Business"],"paragraphs":["The building can not only give an efficient response to its program, it must embrace the challenge of becoming emblematic and recognise that it will remain in one of the busiest and iconic points of entry in Lisbon. To intervene in this context is in itself an opportunity to reflect on the main issues facing the city today.","Thus, we propose a building that imposes itself by its lightness and transparency, both in terms of its materiality and dimension, as well as in its relation with the surroundings. Throughout a sculptural base, emerging from 3 points of structural support, the building, which presents a Y-shaped plan, projects its accesses below street level.","The entrance is made in a sheltered way, isolated from the traffic and the surrounding urban disturbance, allowing the visitor to be inside the building without even entering it. This lowered entrance allows us to design a public and covered plaza.","In contrast, the topographic base of the building causes the remaining floors to rise and float above the city, allowing the individual to see through it. We propose to develop 2 floors for offices and the remaining 11 to housing. Each floor allows a multitude of layouts, structured according to typologies and defined programs, from a logic of open space to a traditional compartmentalised structure.","The exterior areas between the glazed flats and the facade form a vast surface of balconies and terraces, creating an extension of the living spaces. These continuous lines form shading blades, which thermally protect the recessed facade.","To define the separation of each arm of the 'Y' and to break the stiffness of this block, 3 central volumes are subtracted creating landscaped courtyards at different levels and subtle connections between the street and the building. We have tried to relate the commercial activity with an intention of urban life and public space, in which the street commerce plays a major role.","Commercial areas are not independent spaces, but rather associated ones. Several paths that separate the square from the street, converge in a new level, lower than the garden to the east. Through this manipulation, the commercial programme, surrounds the garden and the square, and opens to Monsanto taking advantage of its sun exposure favourable to the west."]}