Vila Dias Community Revitalization is a rehabilitation project in Lisbon, Portugal, focused on the municipal housing fabric of Vila Dias, a late-19th-century workers’ settlement in the Beato parish.12 The project is led by Pardal Monteiro Arquitectos and concerns the requalification of an existing urban ensemble that was recently acquired by the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and incorporated into the city’s program for the rehabilitation of Pátios e Vilas.12
The project document describes Vila Dias as an original industrial-housing complex built in 1888 to house workers from the Xabregas factories.1 Its existing layout consists of two rows of two-storey buildings facing a central street, with the site aligned roughly southwest–northeast alongside the Northern railway line.1 The proposal restructures the area through selective demolition of precarious later additions, rehabilitation of the historic buildings, a new residential block to the northwest, improved internal road access, and parking provision.1
The housing program is substantial: the rehabilitated buildings are planned to provide 70 dwellings, mainly T1 units with some T0, T2, and T3 types, while the new block adds 72 dwellings in two four-storey volumes with a shared base, again concentrated in smaller apartment typologies.1 The project was based on a preliminary program and first study developed by the Municipal Housing Project Division of Lisbon’s municipal housing department.1