portfolio 2005-2014 by tomas palmares

PORTFOLIO 2005-2014 TOMAS PALMARES

TOMAS PALMARES 2006

Born in Lisbon, Portugal, in July of 1987 Chamber of architects, registered architect number 21399 OASRS

2007

Countries

2008

2009

Portugal

Slovenia

Academic experience

1st year

2nd year

3rd year

M. ARCH in the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University - FAUTL 4th year Merit scholarship for exceptional academic performance 2008-09

Erasmus scholarship

Professional experience

Projects developed

ELEMENTS Excavated block to generate spaces for fire, water and air

WORKSPACES For a pianist, a writer and an acrobat in Lisbon

SETUP Concept to rehabilitation in Lisbon 38

LIBRARY 1.000sqm investigation library in Lisbon 36

PROTOTYPE 30sqm emergency house for 3 inhabitants

HOUSING 54 apartment building in Lisbon

CLUSTERED HOUSING 50.000sqm urban plan and housing typologies (300 houses) in suburbs of Ljubljana

AutoCAD Sketchup Software skills

Adobe Master Collection

Language skills

Kerkythea Render Ecotect

Portuguese English Spanish

Pano2VR

Basic

Good

2010

Excellent

Basic 2

Good

Excellent

URBAN PLAN 50.000sqm masterplan in the centre of Lisbon

2011

2012

2013

Travel

2014

2015

Italy

Portugal

Interrail

Chile

M. ARCH APPLICATION Accepted in Columbia University - US and in the Architectural Association UK 5th year

Intern

ELEMENTAL / Alejandro Aravena

Architect

Assembly of exhibition

THESIS PROJECT 2.500sqm art centre for artists in residence in Lisbon 28

ASTORECA SCHOOL First stage (4000sqm) of the 7.500sqm school in Lampa, near Santiago.

CALAMA MASTERPLAN 600 MM USD - 70 projects

TEHRAN STOCK EXCHANGE Design concept and schematic design for the 30.000sqm office building in Iran

3M INNOVATION CENTRE Competition for the 3.000sqm office building and campus in Santiago

LINEAR PARK 16 ha linear park in the periurban area of the city.

ARAUCO FOREST OFFICES Design concept for 1.000sqm offices in Arauco

8 PROJECT STANDARDS Creation and implementation of project standards in the office

VENICE BIENNALE Assembly of the officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 pavilion in the Giardini 14

SIP PANEL HOUSE Redesign of emergency house

NEW NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART MOSCOW New National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow.

ASTORECA SCHOOL Site Lampa, Chile Area 7,500 sqm – 700 students Client Astoreca Foundation Team Alejandro Aravena, Diego Torres Tomás Palmares, Carlos Bisbal, Claudio Tapia Timeline Aug 11 – Jan 12 [des. concept & des. development] Feb 13 – Feb 14 [construction docs. & administration] Contribution As an intern worked directly under partner in charge through design concept and design development, producing drawings and images, including lighting studies. As an architect also worked directly under partner in charge,produced all construction drawings and met with engineer and clients. Later in construction administration participated in ~40 site visits.

TIME SPENT

Classroom

25 hours

BUDGET

HIGH STANDARD

$$$ / sqm

Courtyard

Ventilation and light

Computer class Gym Science lab Art studio

+ 50%

Library sqm per student

This school is 3rd one built by Astoreca – a Foundation aiming to compensate the lack of public investment in education in Chile. It’s educational program is based on the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) - that fights academic failure with more hours in the classroom and has a sustained record of high student achievement in some of the US’s more fragile social contexts. Likewise Lampa is one of the fastest growing urban areas in Chile, with one of the lowest academic success rates. 4

HIGH STANDARD CLASSROOM The classroom is where students from fragile social contexts can be provided with the critical tools that allow them to integrate in society - something their parents alone could never succeed at teaching them at home. Consequently Astoreca students spend more than half of the time in class. Therefore, we decided we should spend our tight budget accordingly. So, we put significantly more money per square meter in the classroom than in any other space.

Lighting analysis 70 cm from floor level (LUX) High 700 Maximum

skylight 1 window 2 access gallery 3 lockers 4 teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closet 5

2 3

500 Ideal 300 Minimum Low

This meant investing our time in designing the right amount of square meters per student and the ideal light conditions in each studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desk. We increased the area per student from Chilean standard of 1.1 sqm to 1.6sqm and, with lighting analysis tools, we achieved 300 lux at desk height.

0 2.5 5m Classroom section and plan 5

Since the funding of the construction was depending substantially on donations, many of which raised during the constructing stage, the client demanded a posture of outstanding flexibility in order to incorporate donated materials into the constructive solutions previously defined. To be able to address this problem we put significant effort in construction administration. Since construction started I have been present in approximately 40 site visits. I have met regularly with engineers and clients, learning significantly about the crucial aspects of the construction stage.

FUNDING METHOD & CONSTRUCTION

1ST floor classroom constructive detail

2ND floor classroom constructive detail

20 m

Ground floor

2nd floor

3rd floor

PROJECT STANDARDS

Directory structure File naming conventions Drawing list system

Client Team Timeline Contribution

Data exchange

Elemental Diego Torres, Tomás Palmares Jan 14 – May 14 Worked directly under partner in charge while developing and implementing project standards and good practices in the office.

Elemental is currently facing a new set of challenges: Unlike the projects developed in the first years of it’s existence, such as social housing or small public buildings - it is now confronted with projects of greater size and complexity, such as masterplans and city analysis. To address these challenges properly, a renewed set of tools is necessary, particularly in the areas that affect the most the office’s capacity to deal with complex problems. One of these areas is CAD standards, which concerns with the methodology behind the use of AutoCAD, from format and organization of layers and filenames to representation standards.

Data archive & backup Drawing scale, templates, sheet size Layer conventions Data management

PROJECT STANDARDS

Drawing entity definitions Drawing composition Project submission

Line thickness and color assignment Linetypes & line type scales Hatching Text & attributes Dimensions Leaders and multi-leaders Graphical symbols Model & Paper Space (Layout) Coordinate System & Grid lines External References Drawing Headers & Frames Plotting & Printing eTransmit Sheet Set Manager

CALAMA MASTERPLAN Site Area Client Team Timeline

Calama, Chile Masterplan: 140.000 inhabitants / 23 sub-projects Park: 16 ha / ~5 linear km Municipality + National Copper Corp. + Chilean Government Alejandro Aravena, Diego Torres Tomás Palmares, Janet Bacovich, Fernanda Garcia Huidobro Paula Livingstone, Claudio Tapia Mar 12 – May 12 [masterplan] Mar 13 – May 14 [linear park]

CalamaPLUS stands for Calama Sustainable Urban Plan. It is an public-private initiative aiming to compensate the city of Calama for the negative environmental impact the National Copper Corporation mines have over the city. Its goal is to raise urban standards, to preserve and expand its the city’s oasis condition, transforming it into a more sustainable and liveable one. Calama’s social and environmental condition is simple to explain: On one hand it is one of the most extreme deserts in the world - its rough environment consists of strong dusty winds, high UV radiation and huge temperature differences. On the other hand it is a city where 22% of Chile’s copper is extracted. This represents a significant percentage of the country’s GDP. CalamaPLUS attempts to deal with these complex issues.

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

SOCIAL FACTORS High GDP contribution

Phoenix Agadez 22%

CALAMA

TH /66

Low public investment

Darwin Most extreme deserts in the world 9

Cooper exports in Chile

Green area ranking

0 100

PLAN POLITICAL,TOTAL CORPORATE

500

0 100

1000m

The process ended with a call to vote where the citizens of Calama could chose the projects they considered more urgent. One of the chosen projects was the Linear Park.

1000m

0 100

EXPANSION OASIS AGUA_ SINEXPANSION: AGUA_PROYECUrban limit contraction TESIS TOS EN CURSO Limit non-agricultural uses Expand agriculture

& SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT In the masterplan stage the critical aspect of our work was to mediate between political, corporate and social interest represented by the Chilean Government, the National Copper Corporation and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Municipality and inhabitants, respectively. The presentations we did before all actors allowed us to get the feel of these interests and attempt to coordinate and synchronize them. The masterplan is composed of 23 projects to improve the city. From parks and schools to proposals on how to use more efficiently the scarce water resources, they sum a total of 600 million USD invested.

500

Protect indigenous people Recover water lines Defending the OASIS Reforestation OASIS

GREEN RING

Create forest area LINEAR PARK Granaderos avenue Las Industrias park Riverside park Traffic bypass

CALAMAPLUS

Expanding the OASIS

MASTERPLAN

Civic ZEUS ZEUS Neighbourhood ZEUS

Months from masterplan to start of projects

$$$ 600 million USD

Green ring Water recollection Aqueduct Green network Water rights

70 Projects

Cargo transportation Balmaceda avenue Public transportation Civic buildings 7 schools for Calama

24.384 voters 1/5 of the population

500

1000m

The main challenge behind the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design was managing 2 variables: on one hand the desired impact on Calamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s green system and on the other hand the scarce amount of water resources we had to do so. So, our first step was to see what amount of water we had available and how many trees and bushes we could irrigate with that amount. Once calculated we could define the expected density and plantation area.

LINEAR PARK

URBAN IMPACT

WATER SCARCITY

9 sqm World Health Organization Linear park Today Green area per inhabitant

Linear park

3.5 sqm

25 L per second

Calama

490 trees 4200 bushes per hectare

1.5 sqm 0

Available water

Urban perimeter 11

Water consumed per tree

LANDSCAPE / URBAN DESIGN

The urban park is defined by 5 main architectural elements: the cycling lane, the walking lane, the small and large circular plazas, parking lots and the contention wall (50 cm high). With these elements we define the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s footprint as well as the urban limit. Additionally there are exceptional elements such as the skate park (render above), the stone labyrinth, the natural amphitheatre and the sports field. In between, plantation occurs in a regular grid with trees every 5 meters and bushed every meter, in order to be consistent with water studies done previously.

Walking lane detail 12

Sector 6 floor plan

STRUCTURES Spread along the 16 ha of Linear Park are areas with urban equipment such as playground games, benches and shaded areas achieved through the construction of concrete and metal structures. These structures proposes different uses from simply a place to sit and rest to a celebration area to a small cafeteria. We maintained a common architectural language between all of them exploring themes of the Andes such as the use of stone or the filtered shadows, as a form of conferring identity to the park along it 5.2 km of extension.

10 m

Floor plan and sections

Construction detail of concrete and metal joint

NEW NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART MOSCOW Site Moscow, Russia Area 30.000 sqm Client Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Team Alejandro Aravena, Victor Oddo, Diego Torres, Pedro Hoffman, Tomรกs Palmares, Clemence Pybaro, Florencia Timeline Nov 13 Contribution Produced several renders - interior and exterior ones - along with animated sections.

TEHRAN STOCK EXCHANGE Site Area Client Team Timeline Contribution

Tehran, Iran 30.000 sqm Tehran Stock Exchange Alejandro Aravena, Juan Ignacio Cerda, TomĂĄs Palmares, Carlos Bisbal Lavinia Scaletti, Tiago Franco, Takuto Sando Jun 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Feb 13 [competition to schematic design] In competition stage developed model of the building and all images presented. Was invited back to Elemental to develop schematic design. Worked directly under partner in charge and leaded a team of two interns. Produced significant part of the drawings and images of the building.

In a country experiencing a very unique economic moment, the brief of the competition aimed to challenge the typology of the stock exchange in general, as well as factors that could alter this type to address cultural factors specific to its location. Thus, the firms were asked to look at how this program has developed throughout history while also undertaking a thorough analysis of the specificities of this project.

CONTEXT AND FORM Tehranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s context influenced us in 2 ways while developing the project. At one hand was the lot its allowed occupancy and on the other hand the achievement of the right working environment for Tehranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weather. Given the amount of square meters that had to be allocated, the compact proportion of the lot and the allowed occupancy whenever we tried to solve the project in one single volume, the result was invariably very deep plans with low quality working spaces. We were looking instead for as much direct contact as possible for each working space with natural light, natural ventilation and views. So our proposal was to explore a pattern that expanded through the site in many directions with a typical floor plan that maximized the perimeter so that more square meters were in contact with the surroundings. In order to achieve a maximized perimeter, we articulated the footprint of the building with geometry able to unfold alternatively around open courtyards or facing the city in different directions. Given the pattern is always open, the resulting volume is composed by vertical elements and yet is still perceived as a unity. It is simultaneously one volume and many volumes.

Solar diagram

Ventilation diagram Facade detail 16

PROGRAM AND STRUCTURE Last floor

Mezzanine

The first thing that wanted to address was the program. And our first decision was to place the more public parts of the program in the lower levels so that public access could take place in simple way. In a seismic context like Tehranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s making space for these big volumes of air with bigger spans under typical office floor plans that have a more conventional span generated a structural challenge. Our proposal was to introduce a wall structure in the perimeter of the building able to take the loads transferred to them by the triangular grid slab at the upper level of this public base.

Basement -1 0

20 m

Ground floor

N 17

Walls on the perimeter of the building take the vertical gravity forces; arches reflect that compression is the main force in play on the edges of the building. To respond to the horizontal loads, walls on the perimeter have a slight slope so they brace seismic accelerations. We also introduced a triangular grid in plan; this way the floor geometry dissipates the seismic forces in a field instead of structure lines.

TIMELESS AND FAST Business and negotiations have been always based on trust. So, in times of crisis and concerns about the role of exchange markets, we decided that we had to inspire ourselves in the old institution that is embedded in a Stock Exchange as a way to find a more solid ground on top of which founding this project. Simultaneously, current times need and allow for instantaneous operations. Speed and anticipation is crucial for being successful in the art of trading. Technology and information plays a key role in that performance. Although all this can remain invisible and be only a service provided by the building; we wanted this to become a more structural part of the design.

Entrance hall

Independent offices entrance

Exterior wall concrete Terrace

Entrance hall Parking access

Skylight

Stock exchange mezzanine Stock exchange entrance

Offices typical floor Conference hall Stock exchange hall

OFFICE SPACES

Second floor

Tenth floor 0

20 m

We defined built bays wide enough for efficient use but narrow enough for easy cross ventilation and natural light access for each piece of the program. The typology of a matt-building extruded in height, where interior and outdoor are woven around each other was the natural strategy to increment the contact between the two. For the skin of this matt building we proposed a hollowed block in the outer faces of the plan and a glass curtain wall around the courtyards. Blocks are always oriented in the north south direction, protecting the working spaces from undesired direct solar radiation and the consequent green house effect, but still offering transparency, views and cross ventilation on all sides.

VENICE BIENNALE Site Area Client Team Timeline Contribution

Venice, Italy 60 sqm Venice Biennale Victor Oddo, Diego Torres, Tomás Palmares, Samuel Gonçalves, Augustina Labarca, Alessandra Dal Mos, Edoardo Giancola, Federico Zarattini, Tiziano Rumori Aug 12 [assembly of the exhibition] Was part of the team that assembled the exhibition.

“Chile is facing a big challenge, as the income has tripled in less than a decade, yet inequalities have remained intact. This is creating popular discontent that is accumulating pressure like a social time bomb. Equally, in order to maintain growth and remain competitive at a global level, the country must attract and retain knowledge creators. Presented here are the projects where architects were required to respond to these profound dilemmas.” 0 20

10 m

3M INNOVATION CENTRE Site Area Client Team Timeline Contribution

Santiago, Chile 2,500 sqm 3M Company Chile Alejandro Aravena, Suyin Chia, Tomรกs Palmares Mar 12 [competition] Worked directly under Alejandro Aravena while developing the model of the building and the campus. Produced all images for the competition.

The 3M company were looking to expand in Chile. The current office building in Santiago projected an image on the city that was not the desired by the brand. Together with this there was the intention of building an Innovation Centre for research and development of new products and applications. Alejandro Aravena and 3 other firms were selected by 3M make their proposals.

SPACES FOR INNOVATION The main question behind our proposal was to understand in what kind of environment do people have space to innovate, especially for a company such as 3M, that for years has made this aspect the core of its corporate culture. Many products invented in 3M, like the post it or scotch-tape were the result of conversations taking place in halls and corridors between employees that worked in different departments of the company. So, our effort was to create a system of informal meeting spaces to generate these opportunities.

4 3

1 existing office building 2 proposed facade 3 innovation centre 4 future office building 5 gardens 6 access

4 1

5 0

40 m

1 central hall 2 terrace 3 labs 4 cafeteria 5 meeting room 6 administration 7 access to other buildings

40 m

2 2

5 6

Ground floor

2nd floor 23

3rd, 4th and 5th floor

SIP PANEL HOUSE Site Lampa, Chile Area 7,500 sqm Client Elemental, Tecnopanel, Sodimac Team Alejandro Aravena, Diego Torres, Tomás Palmares, Timeline May 14 [redesign] Contribution Together with partner in charge Diego Torres redesigned the Tecnopanel house in order to build it exclusively out of SIP panel. The Tecnopanel house is an initiative of Elemental together with Tecnopanel - Chile’s main supplier of SIP panels for construction - and Sodimac - one of Chile’s main retailer companies. The goal was to offer a easily self-buildable 30 sqm refuge to sell online - in Elemental’s website - to respond to natural catastrophes such as earthquakes and tsunamis or simply to serve as a refuge for people living in rural areas.

Number of necessary SIP panels to build the house 24

Exploded isometric 2 of 3 Exploded isometric 1 of 3

Exploded isometric 3 of 3 Isometric of package

Floor plan detail 1:20

Section detail 1:20

ARAUCO FOREST OFFICES Site Area Client Team Timeline Contribution

Arauco, Chile 2000 sqm Arauco Alejandro Aravena, Suyin Chia, Tomรกs Palmares Aug 12 Developed concept and schematic design.

Arauco Company needed new offices for the new forest area they were exploring. The building should consist of these offices plus changing rooms and a canteen for all the workers. The roof, together with the wood columns are the most expressive architectural element, providing exterior spaces protected from sun and rain. Sequential axonometric explaining different elements of design 26

Section through office entrance

Floor plan first floor

Section through canteen

N 27

COMMUNITY ART CENTRE Site Area Professor Academic year Institution Timeline

Lisbon, Portugal 3500 sqm Professor Rui Barreiros Duarte, PhD. 5TH year 2ND semester UTL [Technical University of Lisbon] Mar ‘10 - Dec ‘10

The problem posed by the thesis counsellor was to design a building on the surroundings of the Ajuda Palace in Lisbon, which set the tone of the area nowadays due to never having been completed. The building should be sensitive to its historical context - a townscape with heritage value - to its city context - a part of Lisbon with a clearly defined as a culture/museum oriented area - and finally, to it’s social context - the social inequities caused by the existence of two social housing neighbourhoods.

AJUDA

CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS 2.500.000 visitants / year 1.000.000

SOCIAL HOUSING

PROPOSED PROGRAM

MoMA

New Coach Museum

950.000 650.000

Belém Cultural Centre Jerónimos Monastery National Coach Museum

Electricity Museum Belém Tower Ajuda Palace Botanical Garden

34 %

Social exclusion

23 % 19 %

Academic failure

Local scale & city scale

Dropout

Self-managed

Delinquency

Long-term projects

Drugs Ethnical conflicts

Planetarium Navy Museum

Open to the city

Diverse forms of art

Arts

Cultural & social orientation Community work

Street level

6 7

1 2

3 5

1 public square 2 artist courtyard 3 black box 4 exhibition gallery 5 existing tower 6 auditorium 7 library 8 white box 9 large studios 10 rehearsals 11 unloading 12 tower footprint 13 offices 14 small studios 15 light patios

EVOLUTION OF HAND-DRAWN FLOOR PLANS

6 7

10 3 12 11

Underground level 30

2 10

9 6 13

12 0

20 m

FORM The community art centre adopts a form similar to the surrounding constructions - lowheight buildings with sloped roofs - in order to assume itself as a friendly, domestic-scaled institution that invites the people inside rather than imposing itself as a monument, like the Ajuda Palace does. The construction aims at simplicity but chooses the typical Lisbon stone as the exterior material, giving a sense of timeless to the institution.

4 8

CLUSTERED HOUSING Site Area unit] Professor Academic year Institution Timeline

Ljubljana, Slovenia 60 sqm[small unit] 120 sqm[large Professor Peter Gabrijelcic, PhD. 4TH year 2ND semester Fakulteta za Arhitekturo [University of Ljubljana] Mar 09 - Jul 07

HOUSES

NEIGHBOURHOOD

This exercise consisted in designing a housing prototype for the suburbs of Ljubljana. When addressing sub-urban housing I identified the lacking sense of public space as the main problem to solve. In this sense, the aggregation of houses was the essential question, more than the house itself. Charles Correaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Artist village in Mumbai served as an important reference.

VILLAGE

HOUSES Investigating on design strategies that would allow me to address the aggregation issue properly I found that having different typologies occupying the same rectangle in their floor plan would allow houses to assemble in a controlled and diverse way - like Tetris pieces. The smaller typology has 1 to 2 rooms and one floor and the larger typology has 3 or 4 rooms in two floors.

Small typology - 1 or 2 bedrooms

Large typology / Lower floor

Large typology / Upper floor 3 or 4 bedrooms

0 possible subdivision 1 bedroom 2 main bedroom 3 living room 4 dining room 5 living + dining 6 bathroom 7 closet

NEIGHBOURHOOD Once unlocked the house issue it was time to experiment with the aggregation of the units. Taking the Artist Village as a reference I decided to propose the courtyard typology as the main aggregation form, producing a space where families with different sizes and different ages share the same exterior space. Administratively the courtyard should not be public space, but a space belonging to the inhabitants, who care and maintain it, transforming it in a neighbourhood stimulator.

1 6

8 12

1 bedroom 2 main bedroom 3 living room 4 dining room 5 living + dining 6 bathroom 7 closet 8 balcony 9 entrance hall 10 common staircase 11 courtyard garden 12 courtyard 0

10 m

9 Courtyard section

3 2 2

Lower floor 35

Upper floor

HANGING VOLUMES LIBRARY Site Area Professor Academic year Institution Timeline

Lisbon, Portugal 800 sqm Ana Marta Feliciano, PhD. 2ND year 1ST semester UTL [Technical University of Lisbon] Sep 09 - Jan 07

The exercise was to design one of the buildings existing in the master plan developed in a previous group exercise. The masterplan consisted of four buildings for different functions - exhibitions, rehearsals, library / investigation and inhabiting - that formed an arts complex. The building should have private spaces - investigation rooms for residing artists - administrative spaces - artistic direction, production, meeting room, administration - and a public spaces - library. The site is a vacant terrain located in Alc창ntara, which used to be a industrial area in the outskirts of Lisbon that was deactivated and is nowadays in process of transformation to be a new part of the city.

0 1

10 m

Lower floor

Upper floor

Street elevation

The concept developed was of a building in which spaces were perceived as boxes inside a bigger box, some of them grounded on the floor and others fixed to the ceiling, as if they were floating. The second ones are connected through a metal structure that meanders in between them. The smaller boxes consist on the same modular unit that adapts to the different uses by joining with other units or by redefining itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s limits enclosure.

Section through library 9 4 37

9 6

1 meeting room 2 administration 3 public WC 4 reception 5 entrance 6 reading alcove 7 artistic direction 8 production 9 investigation offices

SETUP Site Area Professor Academic year Institution Timeline

CONCEPTUAL OBJECT Lisbon, Portugal 400 sqm Ana Marta Feliciano, PhD. 2ND year 1ST semester UTL [Technical University of Lisbon] Sep 09 - Jan 07

The exercise was to develop a conceptual object inspired on a play by Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta. It is entitled Setup and explores the possibilities of the performer/audience relation. Rui Horta states: “It’s like going to dinner with a couple and suddenly be caught in a violent personal discussion”. The concepts absorbed were the relation between two parts and what’s expected or not in the way they communicate. The pursuit of an object that expresses such concepts began with a neutral, inexpressive form - a setup of cubes built as a concrete grid with its faces filled with concrete. This setup was transformed, step by step, through processes of subtraction, distortion, detachment and de synchronization until it reached a state in which it expressed the concepts suggested by the play.

Basic grid

Vertical distortion

Subtract

Overlap

Horizontal distortion

Final result

REHABILITATION CENTRE The exercise was to design a Rehabilitation centre for alcoholics in Ajuda, Lisbon, starting from the spatial concepts present in the object developed previously. The program should contain public spaces - lobby, cafeteria and toilets private spaces - doctor’s offices, a space for people in treatment to have reunions and toilets - and administrative spaces reception, office and meeting room. It’s total construction area should not exceed 400 sqm. The site is an vacant terrain in the limit of the Ajuda historical area, between the surroundings of the Ajuda Palace and an isolated social neighbourhood.

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0 N 5

Upper floor plan

10 m

1 entrance lobby 2 cafeteria 3 kitchen 4 auditorium 5 WC 6 doctor’s room 7 administration

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Transversal section across auditorium 39

Lower floor plan

Transversal section across patio

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