Madan Park Building / PPST Arquitectura
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Architects: Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho, Pedro Palmero Cabezas, architects
Location: Monte da Caparica, Almada, Portugal
Project Team: João Caetano, Xana Gavancha, Catarina Faria, Paulo Valente, Susana Medeiros, Sofia Afonso, Elise Azemard, Ricardo Alves
Landscape: PROAP, João Nunes, Carlos Ribas, architects
Structure: PPE, Eng. Eduardo Freitas
Acoustics: APEN, Eng. João Gonçalves, Eng. Horácio Carvalho
Construction: OMEP, Obras, Medições e Projectos, Lda
Project Area: 3,210 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
The building houses an incubator for technology based companies and is located at Monte da Caparica, Almada.
ground floor plan
second floor plan
The form of the building results from a process in which the built mass is moulded and subtracted in response to the irregularity of the plot and the different functional requirements. This dissolution of the volume blurs the limit between exterior and interior, rooting the construction to the soil.
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
The plot has two opposite street fronts, with a difference in levels of one floor. Connecting these street fronts a large lobby with a monumental staircase crosses the building. This space has a somewhat public character and constitutes a place of informal encounter for the occupants.
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Walking through the building, visual perspectives unfold, relating different spaces, interior and exterior, public and private, sometimes crossing different floors.
The working spaces are very different from each other in their form and relation with the outside, breaking the stereotyped idea of an office building.
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- ground floor plan
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- location plan
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- roof plan
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- second floor plan
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- section 01
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- underground plan
I love the green voids, and the photography is spectacular! Very well done!
This project reminds me in a weird way of Simon Unger’s T-house, only much happier.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/onyone/313830736/in/faves-red_gloww/
Nice.Congrats
Green light and simple, variable spaces…designed with #ArchiCAD by PPST Arquitectura http://bit.ly/aCYIxf
RT @archicad: Green light and simple, variable spaces…designed with #ArchiCAD by PPST Arquitectura http://bit.ly/aCYIxf
Street View: http://maps.google.com/?layer=c&cbll=38.6619,-9.20187&panoid=-BTEX9R3ixcQkgZyKsElOw&cbp=12,19.9,,0,-5.42&ll=38.661897,-9.201865
Great to see the building in context, thanks for the link.
Too bad the photos are so tiny. Some of them would make great desktops.
I like this very much…
Reminds me of a college in the US that caused a lot of discussion here and I think a bus operators office in France – sorry no links…
The dislocation of the simple basic box to reveal a coloured richness inside is intriguing in all these aexamples and here is handled with drama and a great composition.
Nice working in this with your views of internal building, external building and the landscape beyond – whatever that is, I must go to Street View…
RT @archicad: Green light and simple, variable spaces…designed with #ArchiCAD by PPST Arquitectura http://bit.ly/aCYIxf
I like this form!
In architecture, is green the new white? http://bit.ly/c1a9tW #contemporary #design
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Congratulations!
(just outside the secondary school where I went.)
I generally like the results of those rectangular wormholes, I just do not appreciate the colours, this green should have been more varied in the RAL within the green tone.
Also please plant more trees there, because the Monte da Caparica almost does not have them inexplicably and in the summer it´s hot as hell and full of dust.
Projeto bacana http://url4t.com/FhG
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WoW Beautiful building great photography, solid concept, reminds me of Terragni (conceptualy, not formally)thanx
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i thank very beautiful
7:52 AM Apr 20th
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