Architects: Aires Mateus
Location: Alcacer do Sal, Portugal
Architect In Charge: Francisco Aires Mateus & Manuel Aires Mateus
Design Team: Giacomo Brenna, Paola Marini, Anna Bacchetta, Miguel Pereira
Area: 0.0 sqm
Year: 2010
Location: Alcacer do Sal, Portugal
Architect In Charge: Francisco Aires Mateus & Manuel Aires Mateus
Design Team: Giacomo Brenna, Paola Marini, Anna Bacchetta, Miguel Pereira
Area: 0.0 sqm
Year: 2010
From the
architect. The
project is based on a attentive reading of the life of a very specific kind of
community, a sort of a micro-society with its own rules.
It is a program,
somewhere in between a hotel and a hospital, that seeks to comprehend and
reinterpret the combination social/private, answering to the needs of a social
life, and at the same time of solitude. Independents unities aggregate into a
unique body, whose design is expressive and clear.
The reduct mobility of
those who will live in the building suggests that any displacement should be an
emotive and variable experience. The distance between the independent units is
measured and drawn to turn the idea of path into life, and its time into form.
The building, designed
path, is a wall that naturally rises from the topography: it limits and defines
the open space, organizing the entire plot.