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Architects: Nuno Simões + DNSJ.arq
- Year: 2011
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Photographs:Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Text description provided by the architects. The assignment was to build a new structureto replacethe former temporary structure wich was in very poor condition and a new antechamber. The antechamber, needed to control the thermal exchanges,was tougt like a new “perfect rock” among the others existing ones.
The main concernsof the structure to allow visitors inside the cave, was to beable torunaclean and dry construction, considering the impossibility of usingconstruction techniquesthat would requireweldingand / orin situconcreteand the use ofenduringmaterialscapable of withstandingthe passage of timein aparticularly hostileenvironment. We decided that thisstructure should be opaque andblackin sharp contrastwith thelight color of thelimestone cave.
