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What is Rés do Chão?

What issue does it aim to solve?

Where is the project being implemented?

To whom is it directed?

What is the strategy? What services provides?

Activities and Services

Empty stores occupation

Local retail promotion Public space activation

Press

Team

Partners

Contacts


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What is Rés do Chão?

Rés do Chão (Ground-floor) is an urban rehabilitation and renewal project. Its main goal is the revitalization and stimulation of cities through the reoccupation and rehabilitation of vacant ground-floor spaces. The project began in 2013 and won an award by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation under the FAZ – Ideias de Origem Portuguesa initiative; since 2014, it functions with the support of the BIP-ZIP program

of the Lisbon City Hall.


What issue does it aim to solve?

Rés do Chão recognized a persistent issue on Portuguese urban environments: the vacating of commercial ground-floor spaces. This situation has lead to the degradation of buildings and public space, as well as to the abandonment of streets and the loss of street life dynamics.


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Where is the project being implemented?

Rés do Chão is being implemented in the Misericórdia parish, in Lisbon, an area that encloses a number of streets affected by the closing of shops and the vacating of ground-floor spaces.Since 2014, it has worked on Rua do Poço dos Negros, Rua Poiais de São Bento and Rua de São Bento.


To whom is it directed?

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Owers of vacant ground-floor spaces

Potetial Tenants of commercial ground-floor spaces

COMERCIANTESlocais e novas actividades comerciais

The Local Comunity interested in improving the neighborhood

Public Institutions, investors, among other agents interested in having active partners in the local development of the city.



What is the strategy? What services provides?

Rés do Chão develops various activities in three lines of action: the occupation of empty stores; the promotion of local trade and the activation of public space. Through this strategy Rés do Chão has contributed to the rehabilitation of the built heritage and public space; for the functional diversity of the streets and for the local economy development.Rés do Chão has also defined a strategy of creating a Community network of participatory and collaborative nature, allowing residents and merchants to be not only recipients but also co-responsible for the lines of development of their

community.


EMPTY SPACESOCCUPATION

LOCAL TRADE PROMOTION

ACTIVATION OF PUBLIC SPACE

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alternative lease management

Rehabilitation

Facilitation between store landlords and potential tenants

Feira Vizinha

Feira VizinhaLocal retail sreet market

Parklet - Temporary occupation of car parking spaces

Mapping and promoting local trade

Networking events

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Neighborhood Newsletter

Neighborhood Rubric



Occupation of empty stores

Alternative lease management

Rés do Chão creates a network of store owners and potential tenants, promoting the occupation of the empty stores. Through shared rental models and temporary occupation systems it creates a sustainable alternatives for the stores occupation.

Rés do Chão 119, located at Rua do Poço dos Negros, nº 119, is not only the headquarters of the project, but also a coworking space, currently occupied by various professionals from creative hub. During the weekends the space is occasionally programmed for events such as conferences, pop-up shops, concerts, dinners and more. Rés do Chão 119 is a pilot working project since June 2014.


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Ground weekly operation of Rés do Chão 119






Rés do Chão 119 - Designers tenantsPhotos by Ricardo Santeodoro

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Rés do Chão 119 - Event - Joana Reais Emsamble concert

Rés do Chão 119 - Event - Italian food workshop “Mani in Pasta”




Rehabilitation

If the owners or tenants are interested in rehabilitating the stores, Rés do Chão has an architecture team available to develop all the fases of this rennovation, attributing to

the stores great value.


Rés do Chão 119 - Rua do Poço dos Negros, 119

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Facilitation

Rés do Chão is also a mediation platform between owners of empty stores and tenants interested in renting or buying these stores, taking care of the needs of both parts. Having a database of potential tenants Rés do Chão also promotes the correspondence between people whose jobs or activities may be associated, creating

a network of cooperation and sharing.


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“A avó veio trabalhar” Project - Mediation by Rés do Chão, for Rua do Poço dos Negros, 124



Local Retail Promotion

Mapping and promoting local trade

Recognizing the importance of the local trade, Rés do Chão is building an existing trade database with its activities and schedules, in order to optimize the trade; attract

foreign population and promote a collective and participatory network.


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Feira Vizinha - Community and Street Market

Feira Vizinha is a street market of local merchants who occupies Largo Dr. António de Sousa de Macedo every first Saturday of each month. Recognizing the importance of the local trade and proximity services, Feira Vizinha has the unique aspect of promoting and safeguarding the existing trade in one of the oldest districts of Lisbon, intending to focus on the exhibition and sale of products from local merchants. Feira Vizinha is being promoted and organized in partnership between Junta de Freguesia da Misericórdia and Rés do Chão, and is being also supported by the Remix Project; Ambas as Duas designers and several other organizations and local merchants,

interested in activating the public space.


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Feira Vizinha - Design by Ambas as Duas




Feira Vizinha - Street and Community Market of the locals


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Feira Vizinha - Largo Dr. António de Sousa Macedo




Networking Events

Rés do Chão collaborates with several institutions whose aims are developing activities that promote not only the occupation of empty stores but also the economic and social revitalization of the neighborhood.Among the initiatives taken, it is pointed the partnership developed with Arquivo 237, with Conversas de Lisboa project, for gatherings in stores at Rua Poço dos Negros; the partnership developed with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, with the exhibition (in 21 storefronts in the neighborhood) of year-end clothing collections of students from the Bachelor and Master of Fashion Design and the partnership held with the association Plano Lisboa, who turned 4 windows of Rua

Poço dos Negros in exhibition areas of the project Alternative Worlds.


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Networking Events - Conversas Lisboa



Activating Public Space

Parklet

Parklet is an enlargement strategy of the public promenade in urban areas with a significant lack of public space, through the implementation of a public use platform in a previous parking spot space. Its main objective is to increase the number and offer of small local public spaces in the city, encouraging the permanence on the street and the use of local trade. The Poço dos Negros Parklet was built through Crowdfunding financing and was open to the public between 6 and 20 June 2015 in

Rua Poço dos Negros.


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Parklet at Rua Poço dos Negros



Activating Public SpaceParklet


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Parklet Poço dos Negros



Press

Since 2013, the Rés do Chão project has been the subject of several articles in the national and international press. http://resdochao.org/imprensa/

“Retail Survey TOP 20 - Rés do Chão - Neighbourhood Rejuvenation” Monocle, 2015

“Um bairro a Renascer” - Reportagem sobre a Rua do Poço dos NegrosTabu, Jornal Sol, 2015

“As 10 melhores ruas de Lisboa - Rua do Poço dos Negros”Time Out, 2015

“A vida começa no Rés do Chão”Revista da Camâra Municipal de Lisboa, 2015

Rés-do-chão: reabilitar bairros numa lógica horizontal a partir das frentes de lojaObservador, 2015

“Rés do Chão – Uma das 50 + 1 ideias para sobreviver em 2015” Semanário Expresso, 2015

“De Rés do Chão em Rés do Chão se revitaliza um bairro”Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2014

“Lisboa vai ter Rés do Chão velhos com cheiro a novo”Público online, 2014

“Projecto Rés do Chão reabilita pisos térreos devolutos”Diário Imobiliário, 2014


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Team


Margarida Marques was born in 1986 in Loulé, where she lived until 2004. She graduated in Architecture in Lisbon. During her studies she also lived in Buenos Aires. In the last years she worked as an architect in Lisbon, Quito and São Paulo. The time that she lived in South America was marked by her travels and by the participation in cooperative projects with local communities.

Mariana Paisana was born in Lisbon in 1986. She studied at the high school Pedro Nunes and, at the same time, began her training in contemporary dance. She studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and, for one year, in Facoltà di architettura in Rome. She worked for three years in Vastu Shilpa Consultants in India. At the moment, she lives and works in Lisbon.

Marta Pavão was born in Lisbon in 1986. In 2009 she graduated in Architecture from the FA-UTL, Lisbon. She lived and studied architecture in Barcelona. In the last years, she participated in a project of participatory architecture in Pune, India; an office in Lisbon and later lived and worked in New York and São Paulo. She is currently in Lisbon working autonomously.

Sara Brandão was born in Lisbon in 1986. She studied Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She has worked as an architect in several offices in Portugal, Argentina and Chile, developing in parallel and independently, other projects. She is currently living and working in London.

Manuel António Pereira was born in Lisbon in 1983. He studied Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities - Universidade Nova de Lisboa and at the Université Paris Nanterre. In 2009 began his professional activity in cultural marketing and social responsibility in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Since his return to Portugal in 2010 he has collaborated with various organizations, entities, public and/or private, for his services in territorial marketing, cultural production, social innovation and project management of creative industries and local development.

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Contacts

Website: www.resdochao.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ocuparesdochao

Email: [email protected]

Adress: Rua do Poço dos Negros, nº 119, 1200-337 Lisboa

Phone: +351 213951087

Skype: resdochao119


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