Caneças High School
Description
The existent school, that is object of renovation and extension, is located in the outskirts of Caneças, Odivelas, in a territory of intense discontinuities.
There we found a decadent cluster made up of six square pavilions, disconnected amongst themselves, that conveyed the idea of a fragmented school organism.
The proposal is structured by a double interpretation of the learning concept: formal learning and informal learning. Those two dimensions are translated in the building by two different architectural approaches, and yet maintaining a dialogue between each other. As a result, the stiffness of the existent blocks, where the class rooms are placed and arranged like efficient “learning machines”, contrasts with the informal nature of the new built structures, enabling the “informal learning“ in these collective spaces. This new intervention shapes itself in order to embrace the old volumes, which were previously segregated, and bring them all together through the new proposed spaces of learning.
Considering that in a school, every space is a teaching environment, each one with its own importance, the organization and articulation between all spaces is meant to be fluid, with physical and visual permeability, allowing a more spontaneous and creative appropriation, leading to the will to learn through space. Human relations and activities are, in the end, in the base of all knowledge. From a tectonic point of view, the solutions adopted give the building an idea of matter unity and grant the space an elementary and abstract character.
Datasheet
Rua da Escola Secundária, Caneças, Portugal
School Building - 11.600 m2
Total Intervention Area - 32.600 m2
ARX Portugal, Arquitectos lda.
José Mateus
Nuno Mateus
Ricardo Guerreiro, Fábio Cortês, Ana Fontes, João Dantas, Sofia Raposo, Mariana Sá, Emanuel Rebelo, Diana Afonso, Miguel Torres, Filipe Cardoso, Bruno Martins, Marc Anguill, Gaia Pelizzari, Rodrigo Henriques
Lanscape Architecture
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Graphic Desing
ATELIER PEDRO FALCÃO – Designer Pedro Falcão
Demolitions, Foundations, Retaining Walls, Structures and Roads
SAFRE, Estudos e Projectos de Engenharia Lda
Technical Facilities and Special Equipment
PEN Engenharia
Acoustic Systems
CTQ, Lda.
Plan for Safety and Health, MSW Project (Solid Waste Removal), RCD Plan (Waste Construction and Demolition)
SOLGEN
Geological and Geotechnical Studies
GEOTEST
3D
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