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Luna Building
Luna Building
Lisbon, Portugal
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Luna Building
Lisbon, Portugal
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2010
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
The 5 kilometer's riverfront which until 98 has been a decayed and insalubrious waste site, was been recovered for the city and integrated for its use in such a consolidated fashion, that the city re-centers itself Eastwards and the site becomes truly the center of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, the concept of center ceasing to correspond with the nucleus (the creator of the peripheries), to become associated with a vast area with multiple accesses, multiple uses, referential buildings and public areas.
With a pre-programmed disposition in the detailed plan mainly for habitation and commerce, these buildings are affected by the high price of the ground that together with the prices of the special foundations imposed by the river proximity, lead the investors towards a strategy which called for building high-quality / high priced apartments. In the plan the two buildings act as complementary and in fact they were designed as one, under the concept of the housing block as a terraced plaza, encouraging the community / condominium feeling.
In terms of architectonic language the buildings try to be sensitive to their location, in front of the Tagus river, their façades simultaneously evoking modernism and the maritime tradition, with metal sheet volumes, roofs resting on wooden structures, and the window frames in iron like colour and texture. Also, the broken rough stone that underlines all the construction recover the imaginary of the fortified military construction that can be found between Lisbon and the city of Cascais, those acting like a "first defense line for the urban area", as the "Luna" buildings act as the first line in the transition between the morphology of nature and the urban typology.
With a pre-programmed disposition in the detailed plan mainly for habitation and commerce, these buildings are affected by the high price of the ground that together with the prices of the special foundations imposed by the river proximity, lead the investors towards a strategy which called for building high-quality / high priced apartments. In the plan the two buildings act as complementary and in fact they were designed as one, under the concept of the housing block as a terraced plaza, encouraging the community / condominium feeling.
In terms of architectonic language the buildings try to be sensitive to their location, in front of the Tagus river, their façades simultaneously evoking modernism and the maritime tradition, with metal sheet volumes, roofs resting on wooden structures, and the window frames in iron like colour and texture. Also, the broken rough stone that underlines all the construction recover the imaginary of the fortified military construction that can be found between Lisbon and the city of Cascais, those acting like a "first defense line for the urban area", as the "Luna" buildings act as the first line in the transition between the morphology of nature and the urban typology.
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