The school project involves the rehabilitation of a group of five buildings within Tapada da Ajuda, respecting the existing architectural morphology and typology while adapting it to new requirements, establishing a symbiotic relationship between the school and the surrounding natural environment.
The Sines Data Center is a large-scale data centre of considerable technical complexity. It is a building populated by servers dedicated to data storage and computing — a space commonly known as the cloud.
Redbridge School, a new international school in Campo de Ourique, was designed to promote a human-centred and innovative approach to education, focused on creativity, learning, multilingual exchange, and the role of art, within a safe and welcoming environment for children.
Set on the dunes of the Costa Nova seafront, the new Socio-Cultural Centre offers a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional palheiro building culture, in a landscape-building made entirely of timber whose walkable roof becomes a public route with views over the sea.
The new Abrantes Market is at once a building and a street. Essentially, it is a street shaped and covered by a shell of exposed concrete painted white.
The cod aquarium is a building that connects the Maritime Museum and the CIEMAR research centre within a dispersed complex united by the themes of the sea and fishing.
The rigidity of the existing pavilions, occupied by classrooms like genuine "learning machines", contrasts with the "informality" of the new part, which connects the pavilions and fosters "informal learning" through the collective spaces.
Where the successive linear "malls" intersect, their meeting points generate the Squares, spaces of confluence. Natural light descends onto them from the peculiarly shaped opaline glass roof lanterns, which hover above and break through the roof.
The building was conceived as an opaque, black, protective orthogonal shell that creates a strong sense of interiority and privacy. The necessary transparencies were cut into the corners, inhabited by landscape fictions.
The Cascais Conservatory occupies the former Pensão Boaventura building, which has been fully rehabilitated. The new multipurpose hall was built as a simple extension of the original house's stone base towards the palm grove.
The building reflects a clear intention to embrace its "displaced", strange and unexpected character. It is a large volume entirely clad in zinc which, from its site, registers only a response to the undulation of the terrain, following the sinuous topography with its form.
In this project for a new Library, the rehabilitation of a Chapel and a Youth Forum, the aim was not merely to design a new building but, above all, to articulate the diverse volumes of a context that lacked any apparent sense of unity.
The building reveals an ambiguous character. On the one hand, it "dissolves" and accepts the prevalence of the natural elements; on the other, it asserts its presence as an artificial element of an abstract nature.
The line-building runs along the various directions of the strange polygon, seeking out its geometry. In its apparent movement, it settles into segments of variable "state": thick and grounded, thin and floating, or flush with the ground.
Water, visible from all of the building's volumes, becomes the thread that ties the Museum experience together. Being, in fact, the very basis of its maritime theme, it also offers a potential exhibition space.
Given the autonomy observed among the existing buildings, we wanted this new school to enter into a clear dialogue with its neighbouring buildings, providing a first impetus towards a cohesive vision for the whole.