Alcácer do Sal, Portugal
Aires Mateus Arquitectos
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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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.
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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.
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The building, designed path, is a wall that naturally rises from the topography: it limits and defines the open space, organizing the entire plot.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| site plan--drawing Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| floor plan 01--drawing Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| floor plan 02--drawing Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
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| floor plan 03--drawing Courtesy of Aires Mateus Arquitectos |
The people
Architect: Aires Mateus Arquitectos
Francisco Aires Mateus – Manuel Aires Mateus
Location: Alcácer do Sal, Portugal
Collaborators: Giacomo Brenna, Paola Marini, Anna Bacchetta, Miguel Pereira
Date: 2006-2007
Built: 2008-2010
Client: Santa Casa da Misericordia de Alcácer do Sal
Contractor: Ramos Catarino, Sa
Landscape: ABAP Luis Alçada Batista
Built Surface: 3.640 m2
