A place called "growth" -Regeneration through contextual evolution

Lisboa (PT) - Special mention

TEAM DATA

Associates: Timothy Simons (NL), Anoushka Kolahulu (IN) – urban designers

timothy-95@hotmail.com

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INTERVIEW
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1. How do you define the main issues of your project in relation with the theme “Re-sourcing”? Re-sourcing thanks to nature, to social dynamics, to new materiality? In which way do you think your project can contribute to an ecological and/or social evolution? And in which way do you think your project can be called a “regenerative project”?
We re-source Campolide by linking water repair to social and economic uplift: sponge landscapes cut heat/flood risk, a co-built bridge and commons connect neighborhoods, and a value-capture model reinvests development gains into housing upgrades, local jobs, and long-term stewardship.

2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
The site’s mutation (new drainage tunnel + station pressure) meets its steep hydrology and fragmentation. We work with the west–east ecological gradient, making water flows visible and programmable, and using a bridging strategy to stitch slopes, park and station into one everyday network.

PROJECT:

Plan - A place for growth
Section - A gradient of context, heritage and future development
Imagining A Place Called Growth
3. Have you treated these issues previously? What were the reference projects that inspired yours?
Yes: we’ve explored water-led urban frameworks, incremental housing and commons before. Key references: DELVA’s Doesburger Broek (Timothy), sponge-city landscapes, and circular value capture models that reinvest development surplus into public and ecological assets.

SITE:

Learning from the site's direct context
Thinking beyond borders, vision for a city street
Envisioning the place that will become home
4. How can your project be implemented together with the actors through a negotiated process and in time. How did you consider this issue in your project?
Implementation is phased and negotiated: Phase 1 repairs soil and water, upgrades existing housing, and co-builds a temporary CLT bridge; its parts are later reused as park structures. Phase 2 densifies a developer edge under profit-sharing that funds the commons, then a permanent water-filtering bridge.

REFERENCES:

Rotterdam's Social Luchtsingel © ZUS
Rotterdam's Ecological Climate Bridge © De Urbanisten
A park used as a regenerative kickstarter © Studio Egret West
5. How did you form the team for the competition and if so what are the skills you associated?
We formed the team to cover strategy and delivery: urban design (framework + phasing), landscape/hydrology (sponge systems), architecture (housing typologies + adaptive reuse), and governance/economy (coop model + value capture). The mix let us link ecology to feasible negotiation.

6. How could this prize help you in your professional career?
Yes. The Special Mention is a credible signal that our work is strategic, implementable urbanism. It helps start municipal conversations, attracts partners (developers, NGOs, engineers), and strengthens our portfolio around regenerative, participatory frameworks rather than one-off form making.

TEAM IDENTITY
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Average age of the associates: 28 years old

Has your team, together or separately, already conceived or implemented some projects and/or won any competition? if so, which ones?
None.