Espaço Público Urbano - Praça Marquês de Pombal - MPRU 2016/17

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Praça Marquês de PombalUNIVERSIDADE
DE AVEIRO
Cátia Viana
José Otávio Braga
Rui Lopes
Sylwia Mazgajska

2. Diagnosis Vision Proposals Action
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3. Problems Potentialities
WEAKNESS:
1. Historical buildings badly used,
usually with archives and other
inadequate uses;
2. Interactions concentrated in just
one side of the square;
3. Urban furniture not inviting;
4. Impossibility of planting trees;
5. Parking lot running unconforming
to the needs;
6. Lack of different connection to
Sustainability Park;
7. Distance to the touristic route.
OBSTACLES:
1. Bureaucracy of municipal
chamber;
2. Lack of efforts to bring
tourists to the square;
3. Car speed and traffic barriers
or obstacles for the good
fruition of the space.
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4. STRENGHTS:
1. Adequate to receiving big-scale
events;
2. It’s airy, but protected;
3. It’s safe;
4. Got many citizen-useful services;
5. Strong history context (inside the
historical center) and presence;
6. Watchful and dynamic community;
7. Enormous parking area;
8. Privileged location and size;
9. Accessible by many ways (car, walk,
bus, soft mobility);
10. Direct connection to the center of
Aveiro.
OPPORTUNITIES:
1. Make agreements with
police/court and underground
park owners;
2. Include many civil society
associations interested in the
area;
3. Good neighbourhood: park,
residential area, historic center;
4. Make agreement with
co-creation lab and co-working;
5. Solve the conflict between
government and court to
release the land.
Problems Potentialities
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5. “Praça da União”
● A coming-together of “past”
and “future”
● The joining of the different
parts of the city: Commerce,
services, residential areas,
schools, touristic areas and
green zones.
● A place of knowledge
crossing
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6. Stakeholders
● Proposals for new urban furniture, in partnership with
local industries and with the co-creation space.
● Praça as an experimental space. Community driven
technologies / collective intelligence.
● Reuse the firemen building for co-working and
co-creation activities in partnership with University,
industries, schools and communities:
○ professionals that, beside working on their
specific field, collaborate to a process of space
dynamization
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7. Stakeholders
Organize a regular and integrated agenda of special (and
unique) events in Praça.
● Talk with Ciclaveiro to make a periodic activity
there to teach people how to ride a bike (Bike Anjo)
● Use Praça to exhibit the works of the schools.
● Promote in the square some of the activities of the
nearby schools, making use of its safety.
● big-scale events related to the vision.
● etc...
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8. Stakeholders
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Too much underused space in the
underground park. It is said that rarely
reaches 50% of capacity.
Surface-use with non-interative
function, like parking. Lost of
oportunity (yellow in right image)
Historical buildings being used as
storage to the courthouse (red).
Commerce with needs to store goods
that are collective (magenta).
Make use of the underground parking to
park the cars that are on the surface and
to store archives, files, and/or logistic
support for commerce, services and
even residential.

9. Stakeholders
Under the square is huge
underground parking for the
cars, but it is closed at sundays.
It will be good to change
underground park opening
hours to better serve the users
of the square and surrounding
areas.
The underground park should be
open in special events occasions.
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10. Stakeholders
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Inadequate tunnel entrance in Rua Direita.
Lots of people passing there. Historical
interest.
Calmer street in Gustavo Ferreira Pinto
Basto between Praça Marquês de Pombal
and Santa Joana avenue.
Close Rua Direita entrance to the
underground parking and open a new one
in Gustavo Ferreira Pinto Basto between
Praça Marquês de Pombal and Santa Joana
avenue.

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12. Stakeholders
Create a sidewalk between the
entrance of the school, the
PMP and the green elements
area allows children to go there
safely.
The presence of police station on
PMP make this place welcome
for kids
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13. Stakeholders
The parking area of the school is
an unsuccessful use to leave kids
at school. It would be less
confusing and more safe by
creating an “Kiss and goodbye”
area by pushing the sidewalk.
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Kiss and
goodbye area
Kiss and
goodbye area

14. Stakeholders
The sustainability park is a very
good element in the
neighbourhood so there should
have a direct connection to it,
for eg. by extending the green
elements “into” the praça.
There can be playground for kids
and banks to take a rest for a
while.
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15. Improve road safety for
pedestrians and other
non-motorized transports in
the surroundings by reducing
maximum car speed and
changing road structure -
traffic calming
Stakeholders
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16. Stakeholders
Use the surface parking area of
police/court for a new construction
with a use that should improve the
diversity of functions and
attractiveness, an expansion area and
anchor point for Praça Marquês de
Pombal, attracting people to stay in
that side and reinforcing the
proposed connection between
school, park and square.
Ground Floor - Commerce or
services
High floors - residence
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18. 3 PROPOSALS OF INTERVENTION
Guidelines:
- Integrate our stakeholders and build these ideas of action
collectively.
- Leave a physical mark during intervention. Don’t letting it be an
ephemeral and just in the day activity.
- Action that can attract curious people passing by.
- Action that can start processes for our longer-term
interventions.
Date: 16-22 January 2017
Goal: Show to the government and citizens that is possible to
bring people to the square while making it more interesting.
Actions:
“Door to Park”
Make signs for help walking people
New Urban furniture
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19. DOOR TO PARK
Suggest a connection from Praça Marquês de Pombal to
sustainability park through the old house in ruins in Homem Cristo
Filho street.
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20. Walk Aveiro / Centro a Pé / Caminha Aveiro
Making use of its privileged location in city, we would attach many
signs over the surroundings to direct people to Praça Marquês de
Pombal.
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21. New Urban Furniture - Caramanchão
Knowing the problems of openness, aridity and lack of
shadows/trees, it is possible to make the space more cozy by
adding “caramanchões”, that could protect people from sun in
summer, guard their backs and even be a support for climbing
plants. It would be interesting for making an open workshop
to teach people how to do it and make some for Praça.
Recommended materials: pallet and recycled wood.
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22. THANK YOU!
We’re counting with you all to participate and
help us turn these ideas into reality!
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