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COASTAL MONITORING CENTER
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The theme of the project is a Coastal Monitoring Center, and precisely for this reason
I thought of going back in this project to the “ancient” waters. That is, of carrying
out the project underground, to find again and rediscover where once, prior to the
nineteenth-century embankments, the old river Tagus used to flow.
The Coastal Monitoring Center develops its functional elements, such as research
laboratories, study rooms and observatories, around the center of the project, namely
three domes. These open onto water and sky and, apart from acting as a hinge element,
a filter and a passage between one space and another, they convey light to the various
perimetral sectors. By means of precise intersections, the domes open to each other
and enable scientists and visitors to pass through. The dome closest to the Tagus
touches and breaks the side of the embankment in such a way as to open the laboratory
to the river precisely at water level, creating a sort of mouth to the sea only a few
miles away.
To assist the diffusion of the light, which takes place only from the zenith into
the domes, we find water tanks which assist the diffuse lighting by means of the
reflection between the spherical surfaces and the water.
In a scenario in constant transformation, the monitoring center is intended as a place
of study of these transformations, but also of contact with the urban reality of the
city: a veritable hinge element between river and city. A point of reflection on the
boundary condition between these two worlds.
I thought of going back in this project to the “ancient” waters. That is, of carrying
out the project underground, to find again and rediscover where once, prior to the
nineteenth-century embankments, the old river Tagus used to flow.
The Coastal Monitoring Center develops its functional elements, such as research
laboratories, study rooms and observatories, around the center of the project, namely
three domes. These open onto water and sky and, apart from acting as a hinge element,
a filter and a passage between one space and another, they convey light to the various
perimetral sectors. By means of precise intersections, the domes open to each other
and enable scientists and visitors to pass through. The dome closest to the Tagus
touches and breaks the side of the embankment in such a way as to open the laboratory
to the river precisely at water level, creating a sort of mouth to the sea only a few
miles away.
To assist the diffusion of the light, which takes place only from the zenith into
the domes, we find water tanks which assist the diffuse lighting by means of the
reflection between the spherical surfaces and the water.
In a scenario in constant transformation, the monitoring center is intended as a place
of study of these transformations, but also of contact with the urban reality of the
city: a veritable hinge element between river and city. A point of reflection on the
boundary condition between these two worlds.
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