The site of the project is next to Cais do Sodre’s station, closed to the center of Lisbon.

This is an infrastructural landscape, due to the railway, a motorway and the tram, which constitute a real limit between the city and the Tejo River.

The proposal is the extension of the subway line up to Belem quarter and the creation of a metro station right by my site.

The project is made of a suspended pedestrian walkway which overpasses the railway and allows to reach the dock on the river, a path which finally offers a real link between two separated realities.

This walkway also connects different public buildings, accessible from the groundfloor and from the passerelle itself.

 

The first public building is a parking, close to the city, a continuous ramp for 180 cars;

the path leads to the metro station and to a public library, organised around a big central space with different reading rooms and a lecture room on the upper floor. The third public building is a conference hall with a spacious foyer open space on the ground floor from where it’s possible to perceive the volume of the room, which holds 700 people.

At the end of the way the walkway itself becomes the structure of a watching tower,

where pedestrians can stay and contemplate the Almada coast, the close XXV April bridge

and the surrounding beautiful landscape.

 

All along the path some panels on the ceiling showing the story of the site, historic images of the harbour of Cais do Sodre’, allowing the pedestrian to understand the place they’re about to reach.