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Paço d'Arcos Apartment / Site Specific Arquitectura

Andreas Luco — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Paço de Arcos is a coastal parish of Oeiras, at the river mouth of the Tagus, which observes the river's connection to the ocean. In the 19th century, it was an excellent beach in the Lisbon region, where the capital’s aristocracy bathed, and with the evolution of the great metropolis, it became more suburbanized. In the 1970s, this seaside atmosphere was still alive, leaving behind various constructions with typological references to this summer life that can be found along the coastline to Cascais. The 1970s and 1980s imposed a forced modernity on the historic center of Paço de Arcos, highlighted by a large housing unit with a modernist design facing south, overlooking the ocean above the old rooftops. These were exclusively T1 typologies, with approximately 46m2, featuring small compartments, a kitchenette, and large balconies overlooking the sea.

Apartment in Cascais / Site Specific Arquitectura

Andreas Luco — Tue, 21 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

This project evokes the transformative power of architecture which, through a new design, can decisively alter the life and use of a house, even going against the principles with which it was originally conceived. The project is located in the middle of the historic center of Cascais, close to the old citadel. It is a 2 bedroom apartment, on the ground floor of an ordinary building built in the 70s.

Caselas School and Kindergarten / Site Specific Arquitectura + Patrícia Marques e Paulo Costa

Andreas Luco — Sun, 31 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

The school is located on the border between Caselas neighbourhood and Monsanto Natural Park in Lisboa. Caselas was built from the ground up in 1949, as a low-density suburban housing estate, recreating the village environment. The plot configures an interruption of the forest mass, whose presence is still recognizable by the mature and consolidated pine forest that defines its southern perimeter and the big pine tree located at the school entrance. To the north, the plot faces three-story multi-family dwelling buildings. The plot also makes the topographic transition between the pinewood - high level - and the neighbourhood - low level. The original school was built in 1956, according to the Centennial Plan - Extremadura typology. Included four rooms spread over two floors, in two autonomous wings (male and female), complemented by a porch to the north, with the sanitary facilities. Later, two secondary buildings were built.

Apartment in Oeiras / Site Specific Arquitectura

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000

It is a small apartment, part of the Manor of Quinta da Arriaga, in Oeiras. The original house and its spaces of support, in the western limit of the Municipal Garden of Oeiras, were divided in smaller fractions.

São Lourenço House – Burel Panorama Hotel / Site Specific Arquitectura + P-06 Atelier

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 03:00:00 +0000

The new intervention in Casa de São Lourenço is inseparable from the construction of Pousadas de Portugal network, with Pousada de São Lourenço, opened in 1948 in Serra da Estrela, 1200m high, leaning over the Glacier valley of the river Zêzere. This ambitious plan aimed at promoting the culture and customs of the various regions of Portugal, combining, for this purpose, the work of modern architects with regions’ traditional practices.

Jesus Mestre Chapel / Site Specific Arquitectura

Florencia Mena — Mon, 02 May 2016 11:00:00 +0000

This is a chapel, or a small church, built in a particular house for particular people – the brotherhood of Instituto Missionário Pio Sociedade de São Paulo. The project brief is based on principles that don’t necessarily concur: it should be the central area for a house of many homes; a space for prayer and for communication; a place of intimacy as well as assembly.

Santo António Museum / Site Specific Arquitectura + P-06 Atelier

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 04:00:19 +0000

The project is located in Lisbon's historical centre, in the border area between Baixa Pombalina and Alfama neighbourhood.

Pharmacy Museum / Site Specific Arquitectura

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The project of the Pharmacy Museum is the result of the close relationship between the architecture and the museography since the beginning.

São Paulo Library / Site Specific Arquitectura

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Built in the beginning of 2014 São Paulo Library, in the parish of Apelação Loures, belongs to the religious congregation Pia Sociedade São Paulo, a community of around twenty Pauline siblings seeking to evangelize through several media, in particular through the publisher Paulus. The link with books has a central role in the community life whether through research, study or simply through everyday publications.

Paulus Bookshop / Site Specific Arquitectura

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The proposal intends to create a new identity for a traditional and classic product, religious, which unifies the several bookshops from the publisher. Innovating and updating without neglect the message of the editorial project, through clear and bright spaces, which communicate with the public, with flexibility to receive different products - books and religious articles - and different activities - book launches, conferences and movies.