The proposal reuses the powerful preexisting structure, enhancing the Market’s role as a neighbourhood hub and improving its engagement with the public space through a few strategic interventions.

mercado de benfica

Open Competition, 1st prize, Ongoing

Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal, 2021 -

plot area: 12 600sqm

gross built area: 5 000 sqm

 The proposal reuses the powerful preexisting structure, enhancing the Market’s role as a neighbourhood hub and improving its engagement with the public space through a few strategic interventions.

The proposal reuses the powerful preexisting structure, enhancing the Market’s role as a neighbourhood hub and improving its engagement with the public space through a few strategic interventions.

 Benfica, Lisbon, 2021  As found

Benfica, Lisbon, 2021

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 intervention strategy

intervention strategy

 A new, shaded peristyle will unify the outer layer of Benfica Market, generating a generous transition area between public space and commercial areas, while solving universal accessibility requirements

A new, shaded peristyle will unify the outer layer of Benfica Market, generating a generous transition area between public space and commercial areas, while solving universal accessibility requirements

proposal

proposal

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 Inside, a new  oculus  will improve natural lighting  and the bioclimatic performance of the open market areas

Inside, a new oculus will improve natural lighting and the bioclimatic performance of the open market areas

 The flea market in the back, will activate what is today an underused backlot

The flea market in the back, will activate what is today an underused backlot

 The urban solution will reclaim for the Market’s orbit a new, recognisable and accessible civic quality, favouring pedestrians and the the soft means of transportation, without compromising the functional requirements of an active market

The urban solution will reclaim for the Market’s orbit a new, recognisable and accessible civic quality, favouring pedestrians and the the soft means of transportation, without compromising the functional requirements of an active market

 The bustling Benfica Market is the venerable hub of one of the busiest residential districts in Lisbon.  The late modernist building, dating back to 1968, needs to find a new generation of costumers while improving the user experience of the origina

The bustling Benfica Market is the venerable hub of one of the busiest residential districts in Lisbon.

The late modernist building, dating back to 1968, needs to find a new generation of costumers while improving the user experience of the original ones.

oitoo has won the open competition promoted by Lisbon’s Municipality by proposing an approach to reusing the powerful preexisting structure, enhancing the Market’s role as a neighbourhood hub and improving its engagement with the public space through a few strategic interventions.

A new, shaded peristyle will unify the outer layer of Benfica Market, generating a generous transition area between public space and commercial areas;

Inside, a new oculus will improve natural lighting and the bioclimatic performance of the open market areas;

The urban solution will reclaim for the Market’s orbit a new, recognisable and accessible civic quality, favouring pedestrians and the soft means of transportation, without compromising the functional requirements of an active market.