An infrastructural street-market. Feira do Relógio in Lisbon

Abstract

Feira do Relógio on Avenida de Santo Condestável in Lisbon, is a "feira de levante" that is set up and dismantled every Sunday on the road. The road for cars becomes pedestrian, and is revealed as a support contrasted with the fabrics, poles and removable tables that house goods on the asphalt. This work investigates the relationship between the specific conditioning factors of the context and the generative operatives of the case from its varied formalizations. The research focuses on the relationship between the detail of the objects and their production of other bodies, at other scales. Feira do Relógio is read as a street-market, in which its ephemeral condition of the program produces a rapid transformation: from fast lane to pedestrian street. This case study has an infrastructural component, capable of absorbing contingencies, the result of the dynamics of its materialization and design.

Keywords: infrastructure, street-market, Lisboa, Feira do Relógio