Martim Moniz
What's the point
Qualification of the public space in the square and surrounding areas, in accordance with the needs demonstrated by the population as part of the Public Participation process
These needs are crowned by the desire for a green space that guarantees multicultural "cohabitation". The aim is to create a public green space that is "inhabited" all year round. A Garden of the World that provides a common ground for all cultures, just as it does today, and that meets the population's needs for leisure, recreation and meetings.
Terms of Reference
The Intervention Program was approved by proposal no. 27/2021 at a town hall meeting on May 13, 2021.
Annex I.I - Intervention program - July 2022
Annex I.II - Characterization - July 2022
Strategic objectives
- An "inhabited" public green space;
- An open place without barriers;
- A space of proximity and free and versatile use;
- A fundamental area linking the Central Green Corridor and the Monsanto Green Corridor.
- To promote encounters between all citizens of all ages;
- To be a common ground for all cultures;
- To be a place that allows the coexistence of different ways of inhabiting space and different celebrations;
- Strengthen neighborhood relations.
- Promote safe and clear pedestrian circulation, guaranteeing universal accessibility;
- Contribute to reducing noise and improving air quality;
- Provide diverse environments, with flexible spaces that can be adapted to various uses;
- Provide comfort and amenity in the public space.
- Promote the reduction of the effects of the heat wave by softening spaces;
- Creating extensive areas of shade;
- Creating areas of water to stimulate air circulation and reduce the temperature.
Program guidelines
- Promote links to the Central and Monsanto green corridors by afforesting the axes that connect to Praça da Figueira, Rossio and Rua da Palma;
- Promote an ecological corridor between the future Martim Moniz garden and the São Jorge castle and Graça garden;
- Promote the use of tree, shrub and herbaceous species that are well adapted to the Lisbon region, with a predominance of native deciduous species;
- Promote the ecological regeneration of the area, the addition of breezes, the reduction of heat waves and the increase in biodiversity;
- Promote an increase in existing green areas and an increase in permeable areas;
- Create areas of lawn/meadow that allow users of the space to stay and use it informally;
- Provide water areas that promote cooling and soften the environment.
- Create clear and comfortable pedestrian connections;
- Give priority to the structuring pedestrian axis between Torre da Pêla and Escadaria da Srª da Saúde;
- A label that links the pedestrian routes between the Castelo and Santana hills and all the connections with the surrounding areas.
- Promote improved safety and comfort conditions for pedestrian and cycling traffic;
- Ensure the confluence and distribution of traffic on the various streets;
- Ensure the geometry of the road and pedestrian network establishes an appropriate functional relationship with the urban surroundings, particularly in terms of the pedestrian, cycling and road networks;
- Provide for traffic calming on the roads to the west and south of the central plate;
- Ensure safe cycling and the north/south connection;
- Ensure all the functions related to local accessibility, especially for logistics operations (loading and unloading) and the private parking lots or stops that currently exist.
- Improving the flow of public transport, avoiding conflicts with loading/unloading zones, road junctions and pedestrian crossings;
- Maintaining interconnections between the various modes of public transport (metro/buses/trams/taxis);
- Optimizing public transport stop areas, loading and unloading and picking up and dropping off passengers;
- Ensure the current public transport routes (bus network and streetcar network), segregated BUS lanes, stops, terminals and respective support equipment (shelters; road signs; SAEIP panels);
- Creation of one or two support facilities;
- Creation of a play area for children aged between 3 and 12;
- Picnic area;
- Independent sanitary facilities;
- Installation of outdoor fitness equipment or equipment for sports activities.
- List the memory of the Fernandina Wall so that its old profile can be identified;
- Integrating and enhancing the landscape of the Mouraria Shopping Center, the office building (EPUL 1975) and the Hotel Mundial into the public space;
- Enhancement ofthe Nª Srª da Saúde Chapel and promotion of the pedestrian connection between Martim Moniz Square.
- Enhance the visual axis between the intervention area and Rua da Palma;
- Prioritize the visual axis between Torre da Péla and Escadinhas da Saúde;
- It should enhance the views of Castelo Hill and Srª do Monte, preferably from the west of the intervention area.
Related municipal and European targets for the whole city
We need to think about every axis in terms of traffic, sidewalks, trees, noise and air quality, urban hygiene, street lighting, street furniture and paving.
Noise
Proposals for reducing the population's exposure as defined in the Noise Action Plan 2014-2029.
Lden (noise indicator for day, evening and night) and Ln (noise indicator for night) targets for 2030:
- 100% reduction - Lden > 75 and Ln > 65 dB(A).
- 50% reduction - Lden > 70 and Ln > 60 dB(A).
ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Temperature (Adaptation to hot weather)
CML target by 2030:
- Reducing exposure to heat by creating shading and milder public areas provided by green infrastructure.
- Improving the adaptive capacity of green infrastructure to rising temperatures and water scarcity (more resilient and adapted plant species).
- Increase afforestation with strong and healthy species to regulate and mitigate the climate, positively altering the negative effects of climate change:
- +25,000 new shade trees and shrubs per year
- +4,000 trees to create shade along road/cycle routes
Water
- 100% implementation of the measures set out in Lisbon's General Drainage Plan, including gray infrastructure and nature-based solutions
- 30% reduction in drinking water consumption at CML
- 30 new areas of biodiverse dryland meadow
Air quality
Prevent and reduce harmful effects on human health and the environment as a whole.
Targets using the 2011-201 period as a benchmark:
- Reduction of inhalable particles with a diameter of less than 10 micrometers (µm):
- Reduction of PM10 by 14% (annual and daily indicator).
- Reduction of the main atmospheric pollutant resulting from fossil combustion (µg/m3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2):
- Reduction of NO2 by 21% for the annual indicator and 25% in the hourly indicator.
Create a mobility ecosystem centered on people and active mobility that is accessible, useful, reliable and safe, based on an integrated public transport network complemented by innovative solutions that enable conscious and sustainable choices.
Promote a modal split of 66% for alternative modes to the car (public transport and soft modes) in the city by 2030 (Terms of reference PMUS, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan), reducing the weight of individual transport from 45% to 34%.
An 85% reduction in GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions between 2002 and 2050, achieving Climate Neutrality by 2050.
Vision Zero (Implement measures to promote road safety):
- by 2030 - zero fatalities in road accidents;
- by 2050 - zero deaths in road accidents.
Complying with Decree-Law 163/2006
A pedestrian crossing must be inclusive, allowing all people, in all their functional diversity and of all ages, to cross safely and comfortably at all times of the day and night.
Sidewalks must be free of obstacles and have a comfortable surface.