LISBON SKYLINE OPERATION is an architectural, legal and economic tool to rehabilitate the city through the collective endeavor of its inhabitants: step by step, house by house, roof by roof.

What is LISBON SKYLINE OPERATION?
LSO is a strategy to regenerate the city through its roofs. LSO presents upper floors as an economic resource to rehabilitate entire buildings. LSO wants to reshape old rooftops allowing its full use as an asset and a key element for Lisbon’s rehabilitation.
LSO interventions will provide social, economical and environmental return for the city and its inhabitants.

What is the identified problem?
The degraded state of buildings in Lisbon’s historic districts is obvious. The financial scarcity of condominiums prevented them to undertaking the necessary maintenance works and lead to the decay of buildings spreaded throughout the city. The panorama results in a large number of deterioraded but inhabited buildings. LSO is a tool to enable the rehabilitation of these buildings, designed to revert this ongoing cycle.

What is the fundament of this idea?
LSO strategy is based upon the notion of ‘communal space’. A greater area of downtown historical buildings has an ownership attributing roofs to common property, this nature of such a significant asset allows engendering investment solutions of great consequence for the the city. LSO starts by revealing the roof-scape as a physical resource for the city’s rehabilitation allowing the creation of a new inhabited skyline for Lisbon.

What can rooftops do for the city?
LSO is literally a top down strategy. Top floors present several construction problems: the majority are badly built, poorly insulated, and have low quality of lighting and salubrity. By understanding the morphology of Lisbon’s rooftops and channeling twenty first century building technology, this operation will upgrade historical buildings and establish an effective strategy for the city’s regeneration. LSO will recreate rooftops integrating dimensions such as biodiversity and energy efficiency, key factors in the rehabilitation and improvement of the urban environment.