Valorsul Showers / STUDIO_LPP

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Santa Iria de Azóia, Portugal
  • Architects: STUDIO_LPP
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  6027 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Daniel Malhão
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  AutoDesk, DELABIE, JUNG, Technal, Duravit, Mediclinics, Imperalum, JNF, Roofmate, Saint Gobain Glass, Secil, Sonae Industria, Valadares, Viúva Lamego
  • Lead Architect: Luís Pedro Pinto
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Valorsul Showers / STUDIO_LPP - Exterior Photography, Concrete
© Daniel Malhão

Text description provided by the architects. The location for this operation was on a long, flat strip of land, on the edge of the manufacturing complex, Valorsul - a waste treatment company in the metropolitan area of Lisbon - located in the industrial belt of Lisbon, along the north bank of the Tagus River. This building was compared with others already constructed (main factory building and incinerator) with very different and very affirmative architectural languages. Thus, building a sober piece, which did not rival the existing one, seemed to be the path to the project.

Valorsul Showers / STUDIO_LPP - Interior Photography, Concrete
© Daniel Malhão
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Ground floor plan
Valorsul Showers / STUDIO_LPP - Interior Photography
© Daniel Malhão

A single scale construction was proposed, a pure, longitudinal parallelepiped shape, where an entrance “place” with an exterior direction was defined, which would guarantee all the covered physical access to the interior program areas. This volume, with a single floor and 50 meters longitudinally, builds a new street front, where an abstract material - gray concrete - "perched" on a white stone garden - gravel - promotes another reading in the factory complex.

Valorsul Showers / STUDIO_LPP - Interior Photography, Closet
© Daniel Malhão
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Cross section
Valorsul Showers / STUDIO_LPP - Interior Photography
© Daniel Malhão

Inside, the different spaces (medical post, male spa, female spa and laundry) are available longitudinally to this distribution. Entrances and exits (separate) are made by metal windshields that will strategically occupy this distribution corridor. In the changing rooms, two central infrastructural areas are built which, placed in the center of the space, define two distinct areas - dirty area / clean area. These two areas contain all the equipment and infrastructure necessary to ensure an efficient and comfortable operation of the equipment.

Valorsul Showers / STUDIO_LPP - Interior Photography
© Daniel Malhão

To the concrete, on the facade, a continuous U-Glass plane (self-supporting translucent glass) is added to the facade. This “glassy” limit makes it possible to counteract a pre-made idea of what a bathhouse is, while guaranteeing the desired privacy, but giving a luminous dimension to the entire program.

Valorsul Showers / STUDIO_LPP - Exterior Photography, Concrete
© Daniel Malhão

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Address:Santa Iria da Azoia, Loures, Portugal

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Cite: "Valorsul Showers / STUDIO_LPP" [Balneários Valorsul / STUDIO_LPP] 10 Jul 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/943264/valorsul-showers-studio-lpp> ISSN 0719-8884

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