European Prize for Urban Public Space 2018 | Terras da Costa on the shortlisted for the prize

This prize, created in 2010 and organised, every two years, by seven European institutions aims to release projects that promote and recognise the important role of public space. The jury is presided by Olga Tarrasó (on behalf of Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - CCCB), having as members: Peter Cachola Schmal (director of Deutsches Architekturmuseum – DAM), Matevž Čelik (director of Muzej za Arhitekturo in Oblikovanje – MAO), Hans Ibelings (architectural historian and critic), Ewa P. Porębska (architect and editor-in-chief of the magazine Architektura-Murator), Francis Rambert (director of Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine em Paris), Katharina Ritter (exhibit curator of Architekturzentrum Wien – AzW), Ellis Woodman (director of The Architecture Foundation (AF) in London) and David Bravo (secretary on behalf of Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - CCCB).
This project lead by ateliermob and colectivo warehouse represents the work developed in Bairro Terras da Costa, between 2012 and 2017, with the support of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Câmara Municipal de Almada. After the Communitary Kitchen (2014) other processes developed in this public space. The most important was the one focusing in their rehousing - mapping, diagnosing their current conditions and their future location. The rehousing process is now on hold while new national housing policies are being released. What one can wish is that a new urban reality can be drawn for Terras da Costa that does not presupposed the community dismantling, thus the full recognition of its strong link with Costa da Caparica.

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