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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Bus Stop Symbiosis in Porto, Portugal by LIKEarchitectsApril 30th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: LIKEarchitects Bus Stop Symbiosis is an enigmatic piece of urban furniture, winner of a competition launched to architects, designers and artists that intended to built temporary structures for the public space in Porto’s downtown, which improve the daily lives of citizens and tourists.Apart from the reduced budget, the main selection criteria were based on the search for an innovative idea and its appropriate integration in the selected site, being essential that the proposal would be fast and simple to implement and dismantle.  Image Courtesy © Dinis Sottomayor
 Image Courtesy © Dinis Sottomayor The public space of the site selected for the intervention – Largo dos Lóios – is designed by the flow of public transport, taking as central element a broad set of (three) banal bus stops. Bus Stop Symbiosis takes advantage of this centrality– worthy of an artistic intervention – and in a provocative approach encourages the public to think about the design of public space  Image Courtesy © Dinis Sottomayor Standing next to an ordinary bus stop and creating a new inter-urban relationship, Bus Stop Symbiosis is an urban facility that aims not only to increase the space for seating in the existing bus stop, but as well to entertain those who are still waiting for their transport or just strolling up nearby. Unlike the existing seats, Bus Stop Symbiosis enables people to feel free to seat towards either side of the square, allowing them to voluntarily decide their position in the public space.  Image Courtesy © Diogo Aguiar Taking advantage of the dichotomy between old and new, Bus Stop Symbiosisis conceived as a plug-in for the historic centre, clearly assumed as contemporary city. More than a mere extension, the addition of this new element valorises the pre-existence and also gets reinforced by it,creating a urban relation beneficial to both structures and where design gets interventionist – although having a playful role, Bus Stop Symbiosis signals the importance of the reinvention of public spaces on consolidated urban centres and acts as a urban space design critique.  Image Courtesy © Dinis Sottomayor Able to adapt to new contexts and therefore replicable its essence,Bus Stop Symbiosis stands as a pilot intervention that carried the playful to the city in an effective and relevant way, capable, by itself, of awakening places once forgotten.  Image Courtesy © Dinis Sottomayor  Image Courtesy © Dinis Sottomayor  Image Courtesy © Dinis Sottomayor  Image Courtesy © Dinis Sottomayor  Image Courtesy © Diogo Aguiar  Image Courtesy © Dinis Sottomayor  Image Courtesy © Dinis Sottomayor  Image Courtesy © Diogo Aguiar  Image Courtesy © Diogo Aguiar  Image Courtesy © LIKEarchitects  Image Courtesy © LIKEarchitects  Image Courtesy © LIKEarchitects
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