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Nautic Cleb of Aldeia do Mato / Cannatà & Fernandes

Javier Gaete — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The prototypes designed for DST Company for the CONCRETA 2003 Exhibition, intend to provide a multiplicity of solutions regarding its purpose. The development of a modular typology that could respond to specific ends such as of temporary housing, environmental observatory, fire outpost, bar, Kiosk, “virtual square” or to a minimum element that could gather the necessary conditions to communicate through IT systems was a priority.

Mogadouro`S Bus Station / Cannatà & Fernandes

Javier Gaete — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A square defined by a group of incoherent buildings and the walls of a cemetery placed on a green surface together with the access stairs portray the place as a gateway for the Village. The Bus Station a place where people come and go par excellence should play an interactive role with the contemporaneity providing comfort upon arrival and illusion in departure.

Cardal House / Cannatà & Fernandes

Javier Gaete — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Two accesses located on the opposite ends of the plot to the east and west distinguish the two entrance typologies: one situated at the highest level of the road allows the car access to the garden and the house, the other, at the lowest level, allows access to a parking zone and garden-platform. A staircase makes the exterior connection between this platform and the garden located at the high level, thus enabling the use, albeit limited, of the part of the plot at the level of the main road.

Landscape Laboratory / Cannatà & Fernandes

Javier Gaete — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The building is located in Veiga de Creixomil southwest from the historic city center of Guimarães, in a sensitive area of high landscape value, classified in accordance with the Guimarães Municipal Master Plan, as National Ecological Reserve (REN) .

Combatentes Educational Center / Cannatà & Fernandes

Javier Gaete — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The project, while maintaining the relations of the preexisting building with the street, adds a new building, formally characterized by its curvilinear geometry which is able to create conditions for the development of the school program while rebalancing all the terrain lines and angles. The different functions are articulated in two buildings (old and new), characterized by the different architectural objectives (rehabilitation and new construction) and the different school program requirements to receive children from the age of three to ten years old.