An exclusive article published by Dezeen showcases Oriente Green Campus, an abandoned mall transformed into an innovation campus by KPF and S+A.
Located in Lisbon’s Parque das Nações district, the development has created a dynamic cluster of workspaces, green terraces, and courtyards, driving the area’s evolution into a technology and knowledge hub.
KPF Principal John Bushell highlights the practice’s commitment to root designs in their urban environments: “The huge, simplified layout of the mall was diametrically opposite to the dense network of streets making up the adjacent neighbourhood, and so we sought to humanise the scale of the building.” The adaptation of deep floorplates into a series of stepped terraces revitalises the unfinished mall, connecting work and learning spaces into a knowledge economy hub, achieving what John describes as “the ultimate reuse of embodied carbon to create an exciting new place.”
Dezeen’s feature includes a series of photographs taken by Fernando Guerra, spotlighting the project’s ambition and scale as a testament to KPF’s position at the forefront of global innovation in adaptive reuse and workplace design.
