lavradio train station | lavradio | portugal  
2009 design and build competition with eduardo souto de moura

What could be seen as a “non-place”, a leftover space, an interstice between five poles, may, in fact, become the very opposite: the center of a new emerging geography.
Between the new Quimiparque Urban Plan, the Container Park, the Quimiparque Industrial Zone, Lavradio, and the Urban Center of Barreiro, we proposed a Park, crossed by rail and road lines, serving as a roof for the Lavradio Station.
To have purpose and meaning, parks must be traversed by users from surrounding areas. With Lavradio Station, ideally suited for this role, it is possible to ensure the convergence of people toward this “place,” affirming the centrality of this new urban fragment, which is the focus of the Lavradio Station in this competition.

fritz lang | metropolis

project
lavadrio train station | design and build competition for the high-speed conection lisbon - madrid
client
rave portugal
location
lavradio, portugal
date
2009
intervention area
55 450 sqm
architecture
eduardo souto de moura, adriano pimenta
collaborators
ana ferreira, carolina salcedo, maria vasconcelos, paulo morgado
engineering coordinator
diamantino paulino (grupo lena)
structures  
civilser, tetraplano
specialities
tecnep
catenary
typsa
platform
gibb portugal
wayfinding
antónio queirós
3d
linha terra studios 
contractor
elos, ligações de alta velocidade (brisa, soares da costa, iridum concesiones de infraestruturas, grupo lena, bento pedroso, edifer, zagope, babcock & brown limited, millennium bcp, caixa geral de depósitos)