2008—2009

Lisbon Bikeway — 10 km between Belém and Cais do Sodré

Scope

Exteriors, Signage

Client

Porto de Lisboa
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

The Cycle Lane project running between Belém and Cais do Sodré was developed by the company Global Arquitectura Paisagista, with P 06 responsible for the signage and chromatic study. The Cycle Lane extends over 7,362 linear metres, crossing different urban spaces where the general concept needed to be adapted to the landscape architecture and communication projects.

Besides defining the cycle lane, the aim of the project was to frame a new public space to further enhance this riverside area. In addition to the different moments of landscape architecture, graphic communication runs the length of the cycle lane.

The entire system of signs, pictograms and words, which establish boundaries, guidelines and information shaping its movement and relationship with the urban spaces it traverses, is painted white on the asphalt and aggregated basaltic granule sections.

Incisions were made in the basalt or glazed pavements, and metallic circles filled with bituminous material were inlaid and ready to be painted in the colour opposite to the background, producing a perennial system of signs.

The communication project uses the horizontal plane as a “support” for content, signs and signage that tell a story, take us, guide us and seduce us through the space as we pass, revealing points of touristic, cultural and natural interest, as well as some useful signs for transport, access or stopping points.

The graphics exceed their basic communication needs, creating large scale works on the route. They define thematic installations, such as Alberto Caeiro’s poem about the River Tagus, which is on a pier and a stretch running by the river, or even the sounds and vibrations from the 25 de Abril bridge, reproduced on the ground beneath it, in the form of typographic onomatopoeia