The project appears to be the consequence of an earthquake, like the fissures that come to light from the ground basis, starting to create brief openings that come along Alcantara Valley, promoting the imaginary of the old image of the structure. The valley was thin water course, a river that moved up the hill – like an organic path – that we assumed that was already there. The intervention was (meant to be) a rehabilitation of the image, becoming the living metaphor for the seismic failure that characterizes the place.

The concept walks in hands with function: Half mixed with the forest trees half hidden in tectonic movement, the water treatment regenerate the cycle (…) moves in its way (…) crossing the valley is now a counter movement (…) The ancient “caneiro” comes out of the historic land layers, becoming the ceiling of renewed waters of the city. Reinterpreting the past, the water course is a dialogue between hills that preserves the ecological system.

Underneath the green roof terraces (…) the valley covered with nature creates a visual passage through the movement metaphor.
A ramal that invites the river back, to send the (treated) waters to… This river bridge is a communication system, a closed and almost invisible circuit that supports on architecture to give it an image - A standstill passage that demonstrate how geometric forms generates organic paths.

When we leave the city or when we arrive: We can only see it when we are moving.