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.
Conversion of the former industrial buildings of an olive oil factory into housing, preserving the memory of the original façades. At the rear, an expressive garden takes over the courtyard and “climbs” onto the balconies of the different floors, reaching the upper terrace.
The project involves the rehabilitation of the 19th-century chalet of Queen Maria Pia of Savoy, which is intended to remain the dominant element structuring the site and its external views, as well as the construction of two new residential buildings on the same plot.
Rehabilitation of a building constructed in the 1940s, forming part of Ressano Garcia’s plan for the urban expansion of Lisbon, with the apartments reconfigured and adapted to contemporary ways of living.
Originally comprising four apartments, the building was converted into a single-family house. The main façade was preserved, while the remainder of the building was entirely rebuilt, taking advantage of the juxtaposition of two distinct periods.
In the conversion of an office building by Tomás Taveira into apartments, the aim was to establish a broader relationship between the building and the city, evoking Lisbon’s characteristic openings, materiality, and the sublimation of its lightness and luminosity.
At the top of one of the buildings at the crossroads of Avenida dos Estados Unidos da América and Avenida de Roma, a set of spaces referred to as "ateliers" in the original design is adapted for residential use, revealing once again the beauty that had been lost.
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.
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.
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.
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.