2007
Location: Praca do Comercio.Lisbon, Portugal
Program: Information Exchange Center_ Ubime

The Desires Bank located in Praca do Comercio, the main square in Lisbon Portugal, is a new typology for the city.
Completing the enclosure of the baroque civic plaza, it is a place in which residents, visitors and tourists exchange knowledge and actions based on desires they hold about the city they are in. Through selective filtering, a user with a specific desire is set on a tailored path which results in an exchange of information or services with another user who has a certain familiarity with the desired topic. The objective is to create a multiplicity of exchanges by capitalizing on the acquired, specific and particular knowledge than the resident, visitor or tourist possesses.

These three users have unique and very different perspectives of the city in which they are present. Each type possesses a specific quality of knowledge in certain areas which another type might not have. An example being, the resident who might know the great restaurants of the city, but has no experience in regards to hotels since he does not use them. The tourist, although having limited information of other areas, might be considered an expert in regards to hotels.

The project tries to orchestrate exchanges of this sort, filling in the gaps of knowledge for a complete map of possible solutions for desires of any kind, in any city.

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