Alcantara Wastewater Treatment Plant Refurbishment / Aires Mateus, Frederico Valsassina, João Nunes

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  • Collaborators: João Esteves, Elisa Laval, Humberto Fonseca, Duarte Madrugo, Catarina Bello, Pedro Canotilho
  • Landscape: PROAP
  • Contractor: Somague, Edifer, Hidrocontracto
  • Architects In Charge: Manuel Aires Mateus, Frederico Valsassina, João Nunes
  • Coordinators: Inês Cordovil, Jorge P. Silva
  • City: Lisbon
  • Country: Portugal
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Text description provided by the architects. In Alcantara Wastewater Treatment Plant’s modernization project, some environmental preservation reasons imposed the creation of a green roof. Furthermore, the program foresaw two service buildings: one for monitoring the Plant, and a second one to house the public company headquarter.

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

In this project, the different programs overlap: the plant is covered with a “thick habitable roof” which houses the facilities, corridors and other services. In a territorial scale, the green roof extends the natural hills of Alcantara Valley, reducing the damage the road infrastructures cause to the area.

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Within the roof the building integrates itself. By shaping the topography, habitability conditions are generated. The administrative areas are defined by a limiting wall, a glass plane and scattered volumes with secondary functions; those elements separate the internal corridors from the workspaces.

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Address:Lisbon, Portugal

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Cite: "Alcantara Wastewater Treatment Plant Refurbishment / Aires Mateus, Frederico Valsassina, João Nunes" [Requalificação da Etar de Alcântara / Frederico Valsassina Arquitectos + Aires Mateus + João Nunes] 31 Jan 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/472062/alcantara-wastewater-treatment-plant-refurbishment-manuel-aires-mateus-frederico-valsassina-joao-nunes> ISSN 0719-8884

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