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THE PRACTICE THE BOARD GLOBAL REACH THE PROCESS SECTORS

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

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10TH WORLD’S LARGEST PRACTICE IN THE ENVIRONMENT SECTOR 87TH WORLD’S LARGEST ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE AFRICA, AMERICA, ASIA AND EUROPE URBAN PLANNING , ARCHITECTURE, SUSTAINABILITY, INTERIOR DESIGN AND GLOBAL DESIGN

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THE PRACTICE

Founding Values

The history of the studio merges with the history of its founder, Miguel Saraiva, CEO and the architect conceptually responsible for each project design. It was out of the passion that he has always had for architectural design, combined with a unique ideological vision to transform a small studio into a corporate structure able to take his idea of architecture abroad, that S+A became a world-scale auteur studio. With the creative hub located in Lisbon, where more than an hundred of its employees work, it distinguishes itself for the capability to open to the world, adapting to each new market and to the challenges of an ever-changing society. Today, with offices spread over several countries, S+A stands out for leaving a mark in different international landscapes.

Collective Intelligence

Since 2013, S+A’s operations covers a widest range of services, comprising not only Architecture and Urban Planning, but also the areas of Design, Sustainability and Investment Advisory.

This versatility became one of the Group strengths, which nowadays builds bridges of trust and preserves strong relationships with all the partners. The studio understands architecture as a collaborative and cross-disciplinary exercise, with quality as the underpinning growth driver. Currently employs more than an hundred professionals who are led by partners, country managers and other business leaders. With a skilled and multidisciplinary team - besides architects, engineers and designers - S+A has a wide range of specialists, delivering experience and knowledge to each tailored and singular project.

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THE BOARD

CEO, Founder and Architect

LUÍS BARROS

Chief Operating Officer and Architect

HENRIQUE CAYATTE

Founding and Managing Partner, S+A Concept Design

MARCELO MONTORO

Founding and Managing Partner and Architect, Brazil

CURTIS SCHARFENAKER SÉRGIO SILVA

MIGUEL SARAIVA JOÃO F. CAIRES

AIA, Managing Senior Partner and Architect, USA

Founding and Managing Partner and Architect, Vietnam

Senior Partner and Architect

JORGE

CATARINO

PAULO DE SOUSA

PAULO REIS SILVA

SAVA YOVICH

ANDRES CERÓN

Senior Partner and Architect

Senior Partner and Architect Country Manager and Architect, Kazakhstan

Partner and Architect, Colombia

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GLOBAL REACH

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1996 PORTUGAL LISBON HQ / FUNCHAL 2015 MEXICO MEXICO CITY 2010 ALGERIA ORAN 2010 BRAZIL SÃO PAULO 2016 SWITZERLAND LAUSANNE 2012 COLOMBIA BOGOTÁ 2012 KAZAKHSTAN ASTANA 2019 VIETNAM HO CHI MINH CITY 2022 UNITED STATES LOS ANGELES 2013 SINGAPORE SINGAPORE

THE PROCESS

Collaboration and Delivery

The design process is developed through synergies with clients and goes far beyond the traditional service offering. It is clear that, today more than ever, corporate responsibility extends beyond the conceptual quality, technical rigour and project identity to also include schedule performance and cost efficiency.

The Comfort of Experience

Our design solutions meet the requirements of each market we are working in. As such, the practice has earned a very strong identity, setting itself apart as a global brand, which has necessarily brought with its agility and knowledge, to deal with the challenges on a world scale. S+A is developing local knowhow, strengthening its experience on an international scale.

BIM - Building Information Modelling

We offer sound experience and recognition as seasoned users of building information modelling (BIM) arround the world. BIM has transformed ways of working within the construction industry, rendering and clarifying all of the information associated with the life cycle of a building. Sharing and integrating data has become a must when drawing up new protocols, activities and growth strategies.

Holistic Design Services

By understanding the impact of architecture in today’s society, our proposals incorporate sustainability values, applying bioclimatic principles to improve the overall performance of built environments. A human centered design that places comfort, functionality and aesthetics at the center stage, enhancing user satisfaction and improving the overall usability.

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SECTORS

Engaging Across Several Functions

The studio’s solid experience and knowledge acquired over the years enlarges its portfolio, both on private and public domains. On the other hand, through experts across several areas, our in-house production team has units focused on each particular market sector, creating effective and logical programmes. A full spectrum of service that meets the careful relation between local and global.

To learn more about our projects, services and culture please read our remaining sector books.

RETAIL

SPORTS AND LEISURE

EDUCATION

URBAN DESIGN

INTERIOR DESIGN

GLOBAL DESIGN

SUSTAINABILITY

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Architecture & Urban Planning

S+A’s operations have widened to cover a vast spectrum of services, encompassing not only architecture and urban planning, but also the areas of design and sustainability. Our buildings are inspired by their surroundings and are shaped by the fundamental principles of the S+A Group: technical and conceptual quality; innovation and efficiency; sustainability and adaptation to the local reality. With this vision and our long-standing experience, we provide architectural solutions that are at once functional and commercial, with a specific focus on the needs of our clients. Designing built environments means effectively combining three factors: art, technology and economics.

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Interior Design Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Global Design Investment Advisory

We believe that architecture must offer a unique, emotional experience. Our aim is to catch the attention of every individual from the exterior design of the buildings to the interior details that guarantee the distinctiveness, functionality, quality of materials and touch of genius which characterise our brand. Our broader, more motivated technical, creative and design team is tasked with developing niche programmes to suit each client’s requirements on an intimate scale. This allows us to offer turnkey projects, taking architecture to the highest level, creating spaces which are highly pleasant, visually appealing and compliant with good environmental practices.

For the past 15 years, sustainability has been a central theme for S+A Group, reflected in an increasing overall offer of sustainable and bioclimatic projects and in providing several other sustainability services, such as LEED and BREEAM certifications. This company is made of consultants, engineers and passive design architects that aim to capitalize sustainability and to grow the Group portfolio in this segment by creating innovative solutions for building design, urban built environment and eco- materials. Our mission is to continuously incorporate sustainability value into our clients’ products and projects, enabling S+A Group to become increasingly recognized as a sustainable trademark.

This company provides an exclusive global design service based on two aspects: firstly, the capacity to consider and reflect on the life of spaces at the level of their programmatic content; and secondly, the capacity to relate buildings to one another, making them sensitive to their surroundings, while also granting them a sense of belonging to the public space of which they are an inextricable part. This focus allows us to provide a truly holistic service that can, to a large extent, be applied across the international market, with a particularly strong uptake in areas relating to culture, content generation and design for museums and exhibitions.

S+A Capital provides investment services to the public and private sector through a unique integrated solution that includes consulting, capital raising and investment management. The company prepares market studies, economic/financial feasibility studies, business plan preparation, and technical advice during the various phases of the project. The company also provides investment support services, capital raising and financing line negotiations through its extensive international network of institutional investors and banks, with an extensive international experience in real estate investment in London and New York and a multidisciplinary background in investments, architecture and urbanism.

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PROJECTS

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PARK INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ALFRAGIDE

LISBON, PORTUGAL

In an extensive intervention area, the new PaRK International School Complex is characterized by the occupation of several volumes along the platforms created as a strategy of territorial domination. The programme covers the totality of the pedagogical cycles, framed in four nuclei: kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and pavilion with outside areas for the practice of sports. Characterized by a long-line volumetry, the bodies compete with the horizontality of the adjacent road, and are counteracted by the vertical dynamics of the façade, created to control sun exposure. The geometry of the ensemble provides informal meeting spaces and offers wide access to the open air. The result is a school landscape composed of children and adolescents, in flexible spaces, capable of adapting in time, multifunctional spaces open to the community, essential for the regeneration of the local urban fabric, offering students and the academic team a complete, distinctive and innovative experience.

Sector Education

Year 2020

Area 18.000 sqm

Client PaRK International School

Stage Built

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MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACES THAT ARE OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY.

PICO’S MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL

AZORES, PORTUGAL

The land on which the school was built had a complex orography with steep slopes, with a total of 38 metres separating the lowest point from the highest. The main challenge of the project, therefore, was related to its adaptation to the physical geography and to the successful installation of an extensive range of functions, while achieving a result which blended and camouflaged into the landscape. The complex comprises three core areas located on different levels. The allocation of the levels was established on the basis of avoiding visual obstacles, allowing views of the sea and of the horizon, which represent the main theme of the project. The plans stipulated the use of materials which would incur the lowest maintenance costs in this seafront location. The exterior cladding is coloured concrete, while the interiors feature hydraulic tiles, wood and highly resistant self-levelling flooring. The infrastructure is clearly visible, ensuring easy access, and the equipment is installed inside the building, minimising its exposure to the elements.

Sector Education

Year 2008

Area 20.250 sqm

Client Regional Dep. of Education and Science

Partnership AT93

Stage Built

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NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROCARBONS MONGOMO, EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Sector Public Buildings, Education

Year 2015

Area 20.000 sqm

Client Armando Cunha

Stage Built

The ITHNGE - National Institute of Hydrocarbon Technology - is located in Mongomo. The project aims to develop a quality architectural solution for this highly specialised centre, which should concentrate various fields of knowledge in order to guarantee maximum comfort, safety and functionality to its operation. By adding additional areas, the creation of connecting axes between buildings is achieved through new geometries and individual accesses. An architectural solution was also guaranteed at the structural level, capable of guaranteeing flexibility and versatility in the substitution of some functions for others, without conditioning the structural model. A regular and orthogonal network shape was chosen. The natural lighting of the circulation spaces, the heterogeneity of elevations and the horizontal laminar image give this building a light and very transparent look. Sustainability was strategically programmed in accordance with bioclimatic principles. Materials with a low environmental impact were used and the efficiency of existing resources was increased. All of these elements reflect a contemporary and cosmopolitan image, of international standards.

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THE PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A QUALITY ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTION FOR THIS HIGHLY SPECIALISED CENTRE.

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UNIVERSITY OF LISBON STUDENT RESIDENCE

LISBON, PORTUGAL

The challenge of the competition involved attempting to create a new urban landmark, until now absent in the area. A specific project inserted into the larger context of the university, which sought to address the urgent need for accommodation for displaced students in a timely manner. With this aim in mind and the possibility of building a long-lasting, sustainable accommodation solution in harmony with the designated site, we designed a unit somewhat reminiscent of Corbusier’s Unités d’habitation, which operated almost independently, their various functional parts interlinking to form a single organism, and we created a modern architectural landmark in complete harmony and dialogue with the surrounding buildings.

Sector Education

Year 2018

Area 45.354 sqm

Client University of Lisbon

Stage Under construction

Prize Competition (1st Place)

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ESCOLA BÁSICA DE CASCAIS

CASCAIS, PORTUGAL

Sector Education

Year 2019

Area 18.000 sqm

Client Câmara Municipal de Cascais Stage Competition

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CHOREOGRAPHY ACADEMY KAZAJA

NUR-SULTAN, KAZAKHSTAN

The project envisages a ’dance and ballet village‘ built on wooden slats protected from the rain and sun. The great auditorium assumes the symbolic role as the heart of the complex, conceived in the image of a giant pearl among wooden boxes. At night, the accumulated heat envelops the protected square - which is identical to that of the town hall square in Siena, Italy, in the form of an amphitheatre. The interior follows the classic form of a ‘shoe box’, offering a festive social space. The roof is designed to accommodate the variations in the weather, depending on the use, season of the year, gradation of light, the presence of snow, rain or any other element summoned up to enhance its chameleon-like presence. It is a new and grandiose location, which in itself can take the position of centre-stage, not unlike a privileged and enthusiastic diva garnering public applause. Honouring its identity, the sloping form of the structure lends a strong overall unity to the set. The site benefits from a unique setting, providing endless visibility over the urban landscape. For Astana, the Academy of Choreography will be the new dance stage, one that is able to dance too.

Sector Education

Year 2014

Area 47.010 sqm

Client BAZIS

Stage Concept Design

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EURO-MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

FEZ, MOROCCO

The traditional architecture and town-planning of this region served as inspiration for the future campus of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez. Here, the ‘Islamic Medina’ structure plays a founding role and serves the creative concept that presides over the design of the spaces. The desire to provide a high quality of life to the academic community prevailed, endowing the buildings with the comfort and functionality of a contemporary life par excellence, transforming the campus into the stage of all learning and enjoyment linked to knowledge, contemplation and well-being. This project explores the idea of visual absence of impact, in close harmony with the traditional notion of emptiness associated with the Maghreb. Although surrounded by green spaces, each of the four volumes functions as a mass isolated from the central core of the campus, helping to compose an integrated identity, the strength of which lies in the assumed difference.

Sector Education

Year 2014

Area 67.524 sqm

Client Euro-Mediterranean Stage Concept Design

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NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ADMINISTRATION

ALGIERS, ALGERIA

The National School of Administration, founded in 1964 and located in the heart of Hydra, conveys a sense of peace and tranquillity. Its architectural structure, with small buildings almost immersed in green areas, adopts a Neo-Moorish style and creates an imposing yet harmonious ensemble. The complex invites calmness and contemplation, which complement a demanding study programme. The upgrading of the complex is the result of the new demands emerging in the country, which is committed to training an elite which will be charged with governing the country in the future. This mission must be carried out in a modern, innovative environment, whose heritage and history are reflected in the present.