DATE: 2008-2010 _______________________________________________ VISIT: Inside - Outside _______________________________________________ MORE DETAILS: After the Museological Nucleus, the Archaeological Nucleus of the S. Jorge Castle opened in 2010. It began excavation in 1996, when it was decided to build a car park in that place. The archaeological excavations revealed the antiquity of the sites occupation. The visitors can observe archaeological remains that testify three significant periods in Lisbon’s History: 1) the first known occupancies that remote to the iron age, to the 7th century A.C., integrated in a protective structure in corten steel; 2) the remains of the residential area of the islamic period and the construction of the castle in the middle of the 11th century, having the architect proposed two life-sized volumes to portrait life in the islamic neighbourhood; and 3) the ruins of the Condes de Santiago medieval palace, destroyed by the 1755 earthquake.
Carrilho da Graça opted to not set forth an intrusive intervention. A wall in steel defines de scenographic space and various simple and abstract constructions help protect the ruins.
The conception of some constructive solutions differentiate this work. _______________________________________________
