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Detail Plan CacémPOLIS
Cacém is a suburb of Lisboa, although it is actually located in the Sintra Council Area. Since the 1970’s it has been growing in a way that has been both exponential and disordered. The objective of the Detailed Development Plan for the Central Area of Cacém (PPACC) was to rehabilitate around 30 hectares near the railway station that links Cacém to Lisboa proper.
The Detailed Development Plan’s incorporation into the Polis Programme (an environmental and urban qualification programme financed by the Portuguese State and the European Union) and the funds it made available, made it possible to expand the scope of the intervention in qualitative terms.
The Plan reformulated the road system over a larger area; it promoted the negotiation and reformulation of urbanistic commitments; it proposed the replacement of buildings in a poor state of repair and the demolition of those which prevented the implementation of the new urban design, while ensuring that people who needed it were re-housed; and it proposed the conversion of the road/rail interface and the opening up of pedestrian and semi-pedestrian walks, the creation of a central public leisure area with a number of facilities near the stream, and the overall reformulation of the urban infrastructure systems and their adaptation to a new urban framework.
The Streetscape Project, the recuperation of the Jardas Stream, and the Urban Park Project (designed by the landscape architects NPK) were also undertaken as part of the follow-up to the Detailed Development Plan.
Risco also coordinated the integration of the designs for various buildings within the intervention area into the overall urban design, and itself designed a new central square with a library and retail and services building (currently know as the “Nova Baixa do Cacém” or “New Cacém Downtown”).
The Detailed Development Plan’s incorporation into the Polis Programme (an environmental and urban qualification programme financed by the Portuguese State and the European Union) and the funds it made available, made it possible to expand the scope of the intervention in qualitative terms.
The Plan reformulated the road system over a larger area; it promoted the negotiation and reformulation of urbanistic commitments; it proposed the replacement of buildings in a poor state of repair and the demolition of those which prevented the implementation of the new urban design, while ensuring that people who needed it were re-housed; and it proposed the conversion of the road/rail interface and the opening up of pedestrian and semi-pedestrian walks, the creation of a central public leisure area with a number of facilities near the stream, and the overall reformulation of the urban infrastructure systems and their adaptation to a new urban framework.
The Streetscape Project, the recuperation of the Jardas Stream, and the Urban Park Project (designed by the landscape architects NPK) were also undertaken as part of the follow-up to the Detailed Development Plan.
Risco also coordinated the integration of the designs for various buildings within the intervention area into the overall urban design, and itself designed a new central square with a library and retail and services building (currently know as the “Nova Baixa do Cacém” or “New Cacém Downtown”).
