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Odemira Cerebral Palsy Association / Filipe Xavier Oliveira

Valeria Silva — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 03:00:00 +0000

“Chaos is an Order to be deciphered” – Saramago, 2008. The project for the Cerebral Palsy Association of Odemira (APCO) consists of an occupational activities center located in Quinta da Estrela, Odemira, Portugal. The building is organized in a L-shaped layout that faces a cliff hillside, leading to an outdoor patio easily controllable in terms of access, thus ensuring the safety of its users, as well as their privacy. What was once a “eyesore” inside the Town, a jagged hillside, has now been transformed into a sculpturally aesthetic and central element of the courtyard. The geometrization of the outer space transformed chaos into harmony. Poetics arises from the contrast between order and controlled chaos.

Arouca's House / Ana de Bastos + Filipe Xavier Oliveira

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:00:00 +0000

“What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques is that a project has one life in its built state, but another in its written or drawn state” Aldo Rossi, A Scientific Autobiography (1981)

Accommodation Block Of Sergeants / Filipe Oliveira

Victoria King — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The building for the housing of Sergeants seeks the contemporary world through the resolution of functional, programmatic, and cultural requirements of the construction of its era, escaping from a mimetic design of the existing one, proposing itself as an alternative, which interprets timeless values of the military, such as the rule, sobriety, rigor and discipline, embodied in architecture through the rhythm and pure volumes. The accommodation block of the Sergeants emphasizes the structure as an element forming the architecture, being this tradition in the genesis of the military culture.