The land that remains from urban change - terrain vague- is an organically rich, indefinite territory, part of natural water drainage and air systems. Symbols of resistance and regeneration, urban voids connect different times - organic life cycles, city transformation and ruins, time’s physical expression.
In a context of urban regeneration of Lisbon’s Eastern part, given the momentary lack of affordable housing in the city and contemporary nomadic lifestyles with no architectural translation, an alternative dwelling experiment is proposed – hybrid temporary places for homeless, students, travelling artists, migrants, or other kinds of temporary situations which require social integration – conceptualized in one abandoned factory in ruins and its empty surroundings. An experimentation with time that will last until the natural flow creates a need of space for something else. Transience of urban empty places opens infinite possibilities of experimentation on building the city itself.