Drawn to a one-and-a-half-kilometre long graffiti covered wall, running like a mask between the city and the void, I chose to go beyond.
Beyond the colour, beyond the abandonment, to imagine a new life for the Ginjal coast of Almada, just across the river from Lisbon.
The Breathing Wall becomes the spine of a dispersed artistic centre, an open-air laboratory of culture and experimentation. Rooted in memory and sustained by the transformative power of reuse, the project embraces what exists: old industrial buildings, vestiges of past activity, whose structural traces still pulse with possibility.
These spaces have not been erased, but rather listened to.
They have been carefully restored, reinforced, and given new roofs, expressive structures that hover above the old, creating a dialogue between past and present.
Gardens emerge in the cracks, multisensorial and unexpected, offering places for rest, reflection, and reconnection.
