Contents. Office Selected Projects Data and Biography

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7 Design Services The office s work relies on a continuous joint reflection of diverse technicians and authors, who assure in all the stages of each project, a wide, plural and coordinated vision. Architecture Engineering Interiors Industrial Design Urban design and Planning Consulting Project Management Models 7

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9 Architecture The office s work is founded on the conviction that architecture has a direct influence on the quality of our lives. Regardless of the dimension or scope of the project, in a house or in a regional plan, we search in every moment for the right answer to each of the questions we face, developing specific solutions to specific problems, based on a careful understanding of contexts and a creation of a broad and integrated vision.

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11 Engineering We work with engineering teams as a part of the design team, combining diverse fields of knowledge and experience to develop fully integrated and sustainable design solutions. We keep solid partnerships with key engineering firms, with whom we develop a permanently coordinated work, thanks to the applied project management technologies.

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13 Interiors We believe architecture should provide a unique experience of use, of each space or a sequence of them. The light, materials, color or the furniture are coordinated as part of a whole, converging to create a coherent image and that provides qualified experiences.

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15 Industrial Design Every single detail is important. We create whatever is needed to fulfill the particular necessities of each project. The pieces we created are today a collection of furniture freestanding from the context they were created for.

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17 Urban design and Planning We apply a holistic approach in the study of cities, from the physiology of the territories were they were founded, their history and transformations, exploring programs and measuring their impacts. The team rounds up a broad collection of data to inform its design process. Producing graphical synthesis that enable every intervenient to reflect on the city and its capacity of change. Photographical and written records have the objective of providing an archive and models allow to show the propositions e discuss them. Analyzing, synthesizing and systematizing the present city, we open up the way to reflect on the city and communities of the future.

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19 Consulting The first step of the design process is to help clients evaluate and identify their needs. From strategic planning or the elaboration of a program, to a detailed spatial analysis, our consultancy aims to develop the most efficient solutions, both financially and in quality. The process is extended to the post-occupation stage, to help the inhabitants to enjoy the full potential of their new building. This follow up allows us to reflect and evaluate the results of each project.

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21 Project Management We work to provide an integrated service, from design to construction, until the production is finish and its delivered to the costumer. In all the process we rely on technicians working closely to the design team, providing a permanent assessment, monitoring the project, its budget and therefore its viability throughout its execution. The final goal, is to produce a project that optimizes the budget and the proposed levels of quality.

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23 Models Models are in the center of the design process. They communicate the project to the client more efficiently than any other mean and allow the team to explore aspects of further complexity. We produce models in the office as a tool of invention. Drawing and sketching are ways of thinking and communicating, we use them to explore spaces and the relation between them. They are produced alongside the first sketches of an idea until the end of the project. In the end they serve to create images for presentations, exhibitions, publications and press or short-films. They contribute to the comprehension of the project from its early moments until its conclusion.

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25 Selected Projects Urban Design and Planning Urban study for the Colina de Santana, Lisbon Urban study for the Capuchos Hospital, Lisbon Cultural and Institutional Mosque in Mouraria, Lisbon Museum and Residences of the Ordem São João de Deus, Sintra Public Library and Archive of Angra do Heroísmo, Azores Education Joaquim Carvalho High School, Figueira da Foz Francisco Rodrigues Lobo High School, Leiria Avelar Brotero High School, Coimbra Art and Architecture Faculty, Évora Housing Row-Houses, Bom Sucesso Design Resort, Óbidos Rainha D. Leonor Housing Neighborhood, Oporto Houses House in Alentejo, Grândola House in Magoito, Sintra House in Quelhas Street, Lisbon 25 Offices Garage Films, Lisbon Ferreira Construções, Oporto Exhibitions and Representations "Lisbon Ground" The Portuguese Representation at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Veneza "Five Africas, Five Schools" Portuguese Official Representation at the International 8th Biennial of Architecture in São Paulo

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27 Urban Study for the Colina de Santana Lisbon, PT 2012

28 Description The Colina de Santana ( Saint Anna Hill ) is located in central part of Lisbon. Where the future of six hospitals, soon to be moved to periphery of the city, forced the necessity to study its consequences. The study aims to square the existing proposals to each of the hospitals and evaluate their impacts on the surrounding an distant city. The analysis goes beyond the limits of each operation, towards a broad reading of this particular part of Lisbon, to set up a solid basis for its urban regeneration strategies. The study includes a exhaustive photographic survey of the whole area. A study of the urban history of the hill preceded a historicalmorphological reading, which identified it as an urban peninsula within the city, formed of urban units with different roles within it. The Masterplan was set from this analysis, with three fundamental vectors: Heritage, Public and Private. Heritage In a place with a large number of registered builds, one has to reflect on the models of registration and their scope, as well as the role of larger urban structures, like neighborhoods, conventual fences, or old infrastructures, like aqueducts. A number of partial studies were done, pertaining non listed significant buildings and structures. Public By them selfs, the hospital s plots have the ability to profoundly transform the structure of public spaces. Regarding open spaces, accesses and also public equipments. Thus implying a reflection about the programs. Extending the reflecting to the all the hill, allows a better framing of the issues and improves the response to these fundamental questions. Private Several forms of inhabit coexist in this territory. That must be identified and optimized. So that even the new housing within the old hospital s grounds is better but into context. 28 Team Inês Lobo with João Rosário, João Vaz, Júlia Varela, Rodrigo Lino Gaspar Cláudio Gonçalves e Sónia Ribeiro Photography: Duarte Belo Historians: José Sarmento de Matos e Jorge Ferreira Paulo Sustainability and Energy Efficiency: Guilherme Carrilho da Graça Maria Malato Lerer Financial Sustainability: Ana Monteiro Location link

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31 Urban Study for the Capuchos Hospital Lisbon, PT 2011

32 Description The ancient convent of Santo António dos Capuchos and the insides of its surround were profoundly modified in the XIX and XX centuries, after it was confiscated from the church, becoming an hospital. The hospital, now set to be deactivated, has been set to accommodate housing, public equipments and public spaces, preserving the existing heritage, on a site with a central and topographically exceptional position in the city. unity The convent s surround has been maintained with few modifications until today. One of the main questions of the functional conversion was to sort out the way to circulate within it and how to connect it to the surrounding city. platforms The steep slop of the site originated an occupation based on platforms, born around the convents building. The proposal takes advantage of the same system to put in place the new buildings, preserving the central position of the convent. The succession of platforms also allows a sequential discovery the privileged views over the valley of Avenida da Liberdade and the hill of São Roque. peninsula To sort out the relation of the convents grounds with the city, given its difficult topography, two systems of circulation are envisioned: a motorized, in a closed circuit, still as a peninsula; a pedonal, that cross the plot, turning it a connection to and between the surround city. heritage heritage was looked at in a broad sense: taking the convent s surround as part of the city s urban history, with a fundamental part in its construction, due to be preserved; looking at the other two key heritage values, the convent and the Mello palace, as essential parts of the future integration in the city. equipments The listed buildings are privileged places to locate public equipments, by their nature of public interest sites and their architectonical value and, on the other hand, as keys features in the generation of fluxes of people besides the future inhabitants. private space The new built volumes sit over the topographical logic of the site, over the matrix of the platforms, public walkways and programs, along the limits of the platforms, underlining their contour. public space The design of the public space, even if here appears as a result, is in reality the foundation of the global design. Recovering the a qualified design to the public space within the hospital surround was understood as a key feature of the quality of living of the future inhabitants and the city. In such as the rehabilitation of the promenade, the garden or the tree cover of streets. 32 Team Inês Lobo with João Rosário, João Vaz, Júlia Varela, Rodrigo Lino Gaspar Cláudio Gonçalves, Job Morais e Sónia Ribeiro Photography: Duarte Belo Location link

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35 Mosque in Mouraria Lisbon, PT 2013-in project

36 Description The nature of the program, dedicated to a religious community, and the site, situated in a long and narrow block between a busy modern avenue and a very old street, inspired the creation of a complex based on the creation of public space. A space that could both serve symbolically as place of gathering and worship and its expression within the city. A creation of a void within the dense urban fabric, consists of a two level open space, linked by a ramp, connecting both streets. On one side a covered square, facing the avenue; on the other a garden facing the old medieval path. Alongside the garden, seats the mosque. On one side, the spaces of worship; on the other, the social action spaces. On the upper level, along the avenue, a multifunctional hall creates a small square and a facade. 36 Team Inês Lobo with João Rosário, João Vaz, Júlia Varela, Vasco Lopes. e Sónia Ribeiro Structures: ADF Engenheiros Consultores; Pedro Morujão Hydraulic Installations: Fernanda Valente Electrical Installations,Telecommunication and Security: GPIC Projectos Consultoria e Instalações; Fernando Aires, Alexandre Martins Heating, Ventilation, Building Physics, Thermic and Acoustics: NaturalWorks; Guilherme Carrilho da Graça Project Revision: Rui Prata Ribeiro Lda; Rui Prata Ribeiro, Paula Balseiro Photographer: Leonardo Finotti Location link

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39 Ordem São João de Deus Museum and Residences Refurbishment Sintra, PT

40 Description The Ricardo Pampuri building, which is part of the Casa de Saúde do Telhal, in Sintra, is made up of three distinct construction phases, the first being the north wing, followed by the construction of the church on the east wing. Finally, the south and west wing, forming a 45-metre quadrangle, with interior central cloisters, 17 metres in length on each side. The immediate surroundings of the building is made up of, to the north an access road; to the east a garden with a wooded to be preserved; to the south, a yard bound by an ensemble of building (old vivariums); and to the west, by the main church. Original programme The Apostolic church of the Order of S. João de Deus New programme Order of S. João de Deus Museum and brothers accommodation. [-]subtraction The annexes that were not part of the original construction were removed, the dividing walls were removed to obtain a a set of large naves that are connected to each other, the upper floor of the cloisters is removed. [+]addition A wooden veranda is added to the north side of the cloisters, 14 cells, a chapel, the white that covers the entire building, the wood with which the whole exhibition system and furniture is made which configures the new spaces within the new naves. [re]utilize Building this museum and residence implies the [re]utilization of a place that today is not prepared for that use, time has removed that clarity. [re]utilizing mainly implies subtracting to find a clear structure that easily houses these new uses. 40 Team Inês Lobo with João Rosário, Gilberto Reis, João Vaz, Pedro Carta, Pedro Oliveira, Rita Zina, Sérgio Pereira, Júlia Varela, Rafael Marques e Sónia Ribeiro Structures: AFA Engenheiros Consultores;; Pedro Morujão, Rodrigo Castro Hydraulic Installations: AFA Engenheiros Consultores; Paulo Silva Electrical Installations,Telecommunication and Security:: GPIC Projectos Consultoria e Instalações; Fernando Aires, Alexandre Martins Heating, Ventilation, Building Physics, Thermic and Acoustics: NaturalWorks; Guilherme Carrilho da Graça Landscape Architecture: Global Arquitectura Paisagista Lda, João Gomes da Silva Construction Company: Construções Divireis; Vicente Reis, Lisete Frazão, Filipe Neves Photographer:: Leonardo Finotti Location link

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45 Public Library and Archive of Angra do Heroísmo Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, PT 2006-in construction

46 Description The Public Library and Regional Archive of Angra do Heroísmo sit in the ancient urban fabric of the city, in an annex of the palazzo Silveira e Paulo. The palazzo and its gardens are striking elements of the city, given their singularity, position and dimension within it s tight urban fabric. Given the size of the programme the project tried to respond with a building that would generate, consolidate and articulate public spaces and pathways in the urban structure. So, it isn't the programme and a quest for a given form for the building but the form of open spaces it generates that actually commanded its design. Two corps, two voids The new building is made of to superimposed bodys that create two outdoor spaces: to the North and to the South of the plot. The first one, u shaped, creating a terrace; to second, above, draws the limit of the Pallazo s garden. cover A fundamental part in the building s design, it consolidates and creates near and far relations with the territory. A the terrain level, it s the boundary of the contiguous public spaces, alongside pathways. To the city, it creates a reference line, above which stand the notable buildings and green spaces that surround them. Read as a wall from the garden or as a space from the Library s reading room, this body s shape is unreadable as a whole, but draw clear and regular outside spaces. The lining, a uniform and bright surface, in U-Glass and glass, gives it a clear and delicate image. terrace The cover stands above a concrete body wrapped around a terrace. The outside perimeter is painted white as the walls of the near surroundings and volume opens to the terrace, providing a visual relationship between all the inclosed and open spaces, public or reserved. emplacement All the above sit on top a continuous floor, of deposits and treatment of documents, draw alongside the plot s limits, with a service entrance to this part of the building. furniture Since the spatial design of the building relies on visual and physical continuity, furniture gains visibility and an important role in the functional definition of spaces. Even if the design seeks uniformity, the use of different materials, by similarity or contrast to those of the building, sets the desired standard of comfort of each space. 46 Team Inês Lobo with João Vaz, João Rosário, Gilberto Reis, Pedro Oliveira, Júlia Varela, Sérgio Pereira, Rafael Marques, Filipe Soares, Pedro Coelho, Domingos Domingues, e Sónia Ribeiro Structures: ADF Engenheiros Consultores;; Pedro Morujão, Rodrigo Castro Hydraulic Installations: BETAR Engenheiros Consultores, Marta Azevedo Electrical Installations,Telecommunication and Security:: GPIC Projectos Consultoria e Instalações; Fernando Aires, Alexandre Martins and Ruben Sobral Engenheiro Heating, Ventilation, Building Physics, Thermic and Acoustics: NaturalWorks; Guilherme Carrilho da Graça and José Galvão Teles, engenheiros, lda Landscape Architecture: Global Arquitectura Paisagista Lda, João Gomes da Silva Project Revision: Rui Prata Ribeiro Lda; Rui Prata Ribeiro, Paula Balseiro Construction Company: FDO construções S.A. Location link

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49 Joaquim Carvalho High School Refurbishment Figueira da Foz, PT

50 Description reuse Reuse requires the reading of what the history is leaving, and that has to be done each time in shorter time intervals, recognize a structure reinventing a way to inhabit it, reveal its qualities, understand its purpose and decide how to transform. program Adaptation of the school program at today's education requirements. the fundamental themes are: the school opened to the community, the school as a space of freedom for children. existing A building constructed in 1969, in good condition. A school that always occupied the space with great intelligence and care. subtraction Decide what to amputate in a body that apparently works, but that does not resist the introduction of the new program. Subtract: ancillary buildings, the central body of the school and digging up a patio. addition Add a new body to reconnect the existing constructions, three cores that solve accesses and technical areas. strategy Reuse the original buildings recovering systems and constructive materials Draw the new buildings as pieces of the outer voids. Clarify the circulations. Expand the possibilities of relationship with the outside world. Introducing comfort. Team Inês Lobo with João Rosário, João Vaz, Gilberto Reis, Júlia Varela, Filipe Soares, Sérgio Silva, Sérgio Pereira, Henrieta Selcová, Vasco Lopes,, Job Morais, Pedro Coelho, Rafael Marques e Sónia Ribeiro 50 Structures: ADF Engenheiros Consultores; Pedro Morujão Hydraulic Installations: Fernanda Valente Electrical Installations,Telecommunication and Security: GPIC Projectos Consultoria e Instalações; Fernando Aires, Alexandre Martins Heating, Ventilation, Building Physics, Thermic and Acoustics: NaturalWorks; Guilherme Carrilho da Graça Landscape Architecture: Global Arquitectura Paisagista Lda, João Gomes da Silva Project Revision: Rui Prata Ribeiro Lda; Rui Prata Ribeiro, Paula Balseiro Construction Company: Casais Photographer: Leonardo Finotti Awards Nomination for the Secil 2012 Prize Location link

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55 Francisco Rodrigues Lobo High School Refurbishment Leiria, PT

56 Description The operations proposed for the ensemble descended form a first one, redefining the placement of the entrance to the school. Moving it to the eastern side of the plot, between two narrows wings, defining the north and south limits of the perimeter. The school was re-centered, not only in its horizontal distribution, but also in its altimetry. Since the main access was moved to an intermediate level, between the highest an lowest point of the buildings. The project involved redesigning the topography between the two existing buildings, to allow the construction the buildings needed to host the new program, but also a sequence of open spaces that re-center the activity and flux of the school users. This central complex has a sequence o five different spaces: 1. Drive-in: an urban space, external from the new limit of the school, that allows the entry of cars for pupils drop off/ pick up and for deliveries of goods. 3. Central building: a closed space, comprises three floors and hosts exclusively public spaces, for the use of all of the school s community. Atrium at entry level, Library in the upper floor, and cafeteria in the lower floor. 4. Patio 2: following the central building, located one level below Patio 1, at the same level as the cafeteria and planned as its prolongation towards the outside. It embedded in the terrain, delimited by buildings and closed on the Western side by the new sports areas. 5. Sports areas: a set of new buildings on the western edge of the lot, installed at its lowest level, embedded between platforms, allowing such a significant volume of construction to be discretely implanted in the complex. So, all the fundamental collective spaces, as well as the sports areas, are built along this central ribbon; while the academic spaces are left within the existing buildings. Three vertical volumes were attached to the existing building, sorting the access between floors, hosting each floor s sanitaries and the technical areas. 2. Patio 1: an open space, that is the first entry space into the school, delimitated North and South by the existing buildings and defined on its West side by the new transversal building, that becomes the center of the school. Team Inês Lobo with João Rosário, João Vaz, Gilberto Reis, Júlia Varela, Filipe Soares, Sérgio Silva, Sérgio Pereira, Henrieta Selcová, Vasco Lopes, Job Morais, Pedro Coelho, Rafael Marques e Sónia Ribeiro Structures: ADF Engenheiros Consultores; Pedro Morujão 56 Hydraulic Installations: Fernanda Valente Electrical Installations,Telecommunication and Security: GPIC Projectos Consultoria e Instalações; Fernando Aires, Alexandre Martins Heating, Ventilation, Building Physics, Thermic and Acoustics: NaturalWorks; Guilherme Carrilho da Graça Landscape Architecture: Global Arquitectura Paisagista Lda, João Gomes da Silva Project Revision: Rui Prata Ribeiro Lda; Rui Prata Ribeiro, Paula Balseiro Construction Company: Ramos Catarino SA, Pedro Felgueira Photographer: Leonardo Finotti Awards Nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Price 2011 Location link

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59 Avelar Brotero High School Refurbishment Coimbra, PT

60 Description Avelar Brotero Secondary School was founded in 1884 under the name Escola de Desenho Industrial (School ofindustrial Design). Subsequent reforms brought change to the school s designation, but not to is academic vocation, which, to this day, in parallel to its regular syllabus, maintains a technological and workshop teaching feature. This academic programme is naturally reflected in the building the School currently occupies, as it has since 1950s. It is a building complex essentially made up of three blocks, sets of spaces structured together around a central open space. A first block accupies the length of the Rua General Humberto Delgado (bloco A), were the classrooms, laboratories, administrative areas and library are the found. Linked to this block, a central block (Body C) houses the gymnasium and the changing rooms, as well as the canteen and bar, and a small group of classrooms, in two separate arms of the main body. A final large Block is made up of the workshop areas (Body B), wich complete the building complex. The outer spaces are the most part occupied by sports fields. + clear and flexible spatial and volumetric structure extensive overall area extensive overall outer areas - unbalanced use of space evidente lack of space in certain teaching areas lack of clarity in the structural relationship between the constructions strategy Having identified the advantages and disadvantages that the building offers in the current state been, we now move on to define an action strategy according to four basic vectors: defining new teaching areas; redefining accessibility; redistributing the program me; clarifying circulation. new areas The new teaching areas contemplated in this intervention are those already identified in the situation and it stands. Thus, the areas to be build are: an indoor sports center and a gymnasium, to be established semi-interred at the western end to the central yard (Body E) a teacher working and support area (Body D), to be established at mid height, embedded in the current slope, which flanks the central yard to the south; two general support spaces, in the category of meeting spaces, in two volumes established on the terraces of the two arms of the central body: the bar and the multipurpose room; Another new area of invention will be established over part of an existing building, for which partial demolition is proposed, in order to create an adjoining new volume for workshop and laboratories, capable of increasing the floor area in this body and to better suit the intended programme: supporting areas to the workshop area and new physics, chemistry, biology and geology laboratories. programme The teaching area redistribution intended by this proposal aims above all the current discrepancy in intensity of use of the different parts of the school, as well as to promote an effective integration between the two main educational options that the school houses - standard and technological education. 60 Team Inês Lobo with João Rosário, João Vaz, Gilberto Reis, Júlia Varela, Filipe Soares, Sérgio Silva, Sérgio Pereira, Henrieta Selcová, Vasco Lopes, Job Morais, Pedro Coelho, Rafael Marques e Sónia Ribeiro Structures: ADF Engenheiros Consultores; Pedro Morujão Hydraulic Installations: Fernanda Valente Electrical Installations,Telecommunication and Security: GPIC Projectos Consultoria e Instalações; Fernando Aires, Alexandre Martins Heating, Ventilation, Building Physics, Thermic and Acoustics: NaturalWorks; Guilherme Carrilho da Graça Landscape Architecture: Global Arquitectura Paisagista Lda, João Gomes da Silva Project Revision: Rui Prata Ribeiro Lda; Rui Prata Ribeiro, Paula Balseiro Construction Company: Ramos Catarino S.A., Conduril, S.A. Photographer: Leonardo Finotti Location link

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65 Art and Architecture Faculty Refurbishment Évora, PT

66 Description Original programme Built in 1916, the Alentejo Milling Society became the Leões pasta factory in the 1970s. Seen from a distance from the historic centre and the approach in direction of the old Leões factory allows one to understand that, oddly enough, its principle value consists of its excessive volume that is imposed abruptly on the plateau. Buildings designed around the machines they would house, and not around people, in physical or transcendental terms, who are reduced to mere operators, workers, simple cogs in the machine New programme University of the arts, department of visual arts and department of architecture A partially occupied but machine-less building, appropriated by man. Spaces that, due to their versatility and relationship with the territory, became places for teaching. [-]subtraction The annexes that were not part of the original construction were removed, as were all provisional construction inside the building. The spatial nature of the buildings became clear. [+]addition A building is added that substitutes the annexes, thus configuring the courtyard afresh, with associated workshops, a cafeteria and a lean-to. Other infrastructures were added to the existing spaces, which provide the necessary facilities for teaching, and extra furniture. [re]utilize With increasing knowledge of old industrial spaces and systems we find some of the strategies to reuse in the construction of the schools. First are the large coverings that protected the railway platform and other loading and unloading areas, which could hardly contrast more in their delicate lightness with the enormous mass of the constructions. Now re-introduced, it shelters teachers and students instead of products and raw materials, constructing the meeting place of the school ensemble, it outlines the main patio establishing a visual relationship between all the spaces of the ensemble, whose central open space is an unexpected green field which is reminiscent of university campuses, until then so distant from this context. This body connects the different elements at the same time as it constructs the School space, a large and elongated atrium, a kind of backbone that allows bodies that were previously isolated to function once more, becoming part of a single structure. Team Inês Lobo and João Maria Trindade (Ventura Trindade Arquitectos) with João Rosário, Gilberto Reis, Pedro Oliveira, Júlia Varela, João Vaz, Sérgio Pereira, Rafael Marques, Emanuel Romão, Filipe Soares, Sónia Ribeiro Chiara Ternullo, Nuno Marcos, Lourenço Van Innis, Filipe Carvalho, Filipe Nunes, Nélson Rodrigues, Bruno Banha, Rita Figueiredo 66 Structures ADF Engenheiros Consultores; Pedro Morujão Hydraulic Installations: BETAR Engenheiros Consultores; Marta Azevedo Electrical Installations,Telecommunication and Security: Ruben Sobral and GPIC Projectos Consultoria e Instalações; Fernando Aires, Alexandre Martins Heating, Ventilation, Building Physics, Thermic and Acoustics: NaturalWorks; Guilherme Carrilho da Graça Landscape Architecture: Global Arquitectura Paisagista Lda, João Gomes da Silva Project Revision: Rui Prata Ribeiro Lda; Rui Prata Ribeiro, Paula Balseiro Construction Company: ACF, O FELIZ Photographer: Leonardo Finotti Awards IHRU 2013 Price Location link

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71 Row-Houses, Bom Sucesso Design Resort Óbidos, PT

72 Description This project involves the building of a block of 18 premises for habitation purposes next to the Óbidos Lake in the future site of the Golf and Country Club Bom Sucesso. These will be located in one of the far sides of the Quinta with a valley to the east, one of the access roads to the west, a thicket to the south and a group of dwellings to the north. Our proposal is to build on this site, the central theme being that each premise should have an interactive relationship with the surrounding area, under the following conditions: A privileged view of the valley, with the premises overlooking the valley, yet imposing within the landscape. Take into account the position of the premises in relation to the access road so as to guarantee privacy and give them a measure of invisibility. Set the northern and southern boundaries of the block in such a way that its location in relation to the access road on the south and the dwellings to the north is borne in mind. Design the interior of the premises in such a way that it allows outside extensions. Outer walls to be built to ensure there is both an intimate relationship with the surrounding area and a high degree of privacy. 72 Team Inês Lobo with João Rosário, Rita Zina, Pedro Oliveira, Pedro Carta, Julia Varela, Emanuel Romão, João Vaz, Sérgio Pereira e Sónia Ribeiro Structures and Installations: A400 Projectistas e consultores de engenharia Construction Company: Policon, Construções SA Photographer: Leonardo Finotti Awards Nomination to Archdaily Building of the Year 2014 Location link