Joao­M­or­gado Saca­vem shadingsurface

Loca­tion: Saca­vém, Por­tu­gal
Deve­l­oper: Lou­res City Hall
Mas­ter Plan: CMLou­res – [con­struc­tion] Alfaro Mar­tins [pro­ject] Ana Lúcia Abreu
Archi­tec­ture: ate­lier­mob
[con­struc­tion] Tiago Mota Saraiva, Nuno Car­valho, And­reia Sala­vessa, Raquel Capelo with Caro­lina Con­deço, Nuno Fer­reira and Vera
João [pro­ject] Tiago Mota Saraiva, Nuno Car­valho, João Ribeiro, João Fer­rão with Sónia Oliveira.
Engi­nee­ring: Pereira Pinto, struc­ture; Grade Ribeiro, hydrau­lics; Cam­pos Car­valho, instal­la­ti­ons.
Con­trac­tor: Abrantina/Grupo Lena
Con­struc­tion Super­vi­sion: TPF Planege

This inter­ven­tion is part of an urban requa­li­fi­ca­tion plan for one ave­nue at Saca­vém, on the outs­kirts of Lis­bon, pro­mo­ted by Lou­res City Hall. Our pro­ject held three inter­ven­ti­ons, but only two were com­ple­ted. The pro­po­sed buil­dings had the com­mon goal of play­ing the decisive role at the qua­li­fi­ca­tion of public spaces in bet­ween buil­dings, for­merly aban­do­ned and disqualified.

After the initial site visit and inter­pre­ta­tion of the urban plan’s main dyna­mics, it was felt the need to design three built ele­ments sharing a com­mon nature, alt­hough hol­ding dif­fe­rent uses and pro­ble­ma­tics. These three small inter­ven­ti­ons, with objec­tive and cir­cum­scri­bed pro­blems, should con­tri­bute to sim­plify the com­ple­xity of the environ­ment and, above all, to reduce the impact of the tur­bu­lent con­text. The­re­fore, we sought to design three quiet buil­dings, under the excit­ing motto: „not­hing new under the sun.”

The solu­tion to the pro­blem see­med to be in the so cal­led fifth ele­va­tion (roof plan) that emer­ges as the decisive fac­tor in the solu­tion of the elevation’s dif­fe­ren­ces and the visual exten­sion of the street fac­ing north (in the cases of the Cof­fee shop and the Tobacco shop — not built) and, in the case of the Shading Sur­face, in assu­ming its­elf as the refer­rer ele­ment of the square. After some volu­metric stu­dies, and reflec­ting the will of the acquain­tance of these three inter­ven­ti­ons as a buil­ding com­pound, we have cho­sen to go for a com­mon solu­tion of three roof slopes struc­tures car­ry­ing a huge dra­ma­tic poten­tial in their inte­rior spaces and a con­ti­nuous ten­sion bet­ween the cei­ling and the floor.

This pro­ject assu­mes a par­ti­cu­lar rele­vance to ate­lier­mob by being its first built pro­ject of a public space.

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ate­lier­mob is a Lis­bon (Por­tu­gal) based office, that deve­lops ideas and pro­jects in archi­tec­ture, design and urba­nism.
Its pro­jects and work have been often refe­renced and dis­tin­gu­is­hed with awards as the hono­r­able men­tion on the Inter­na­tio­nal Ideas Com­pe­ti­tion for the Paris Cour­thouse [2006], the 1^st Prize on the Inter­na­tio­nal Com­pe­ti­tion to Deve­lop Tagus’ River Banks [2007] and the 1^st Prize on the Com­pe­ti­tion for the New Moura’s Ceme­tery [2008]. In 2007, ate­lier­mob was inte­gra­ted in the Top 10 New Por­tu­guese Blood held by „New Ita­lian Blood”.