It is intended to reorganize the Terreiro do Palácio de Queluz, in a radically different historical and cultural context from its origin. It is therefore a matter of recreating a space that must fit into a delicate balance between historical reality and current reality, in an effort that must bear in mind the assumptions of imagined but unrealized reality.

This case, like other similar cases, was conceived as a unitary urban ensemble, subject to clear geometric laws, where the marking of the composition and symmetry axes are decisive for the creation of the visual balance of the ensemble, and where architecture, as a singular building , submits to the urban composition of the whole.

Considering that the global and unitary treatment of the set should in no case be called into question, it is believed that it makes sense to individualize and give a different treatment to the three spaces with their own characteristics that compose it:

The Square, which organizes the main axis of the terreiro in the east-west direction, the Alameda, as an “antechamber space” that runs through the terreiro in the north-south direction and finally the Recinto – Laranjal, of rectangular shape, which assumes formal and different spaces from the two spaces mentioned above.

The geometric reading of the square will be  reinforced by the marking on the floor of an Ellipse with the focal center at the confluence of the two main axes of symmetry and at its center a large bowl of water that evokes the ancient “Fountain of the four spouts”. It is proposed the reconstruction of the north-east limit of the square with a building symmetrical to the north-west body.

Both in Praça and Alameda  the hard and austere character is renewed, the exaltation of a wide scenic void that the space contains in its genesis through the absence of trees and the use of stone in the design of the floor: Basalt and lioz, in clear chromatic contrast to clarify the reading of the design, but also to prioritize the use: lioz for spaces for exclusively pedestrian use, the reuse of basalt pavement for traffic areas.

Walking along the Alameda in a north-south direction, a water channel in the pavement connects the Water Cup and the Carranca Fountain and evokes the presence and importance of water in the history of the Palace, its gardens, and in the transformation of the surrounding territory.