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Apoio Centre, Carnaxide
Apoio Centre, Carnaxide
Oeiras, Portugal
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Apoio Centre, Carnaxide
Oeiras, Portugal
The project is located between in an urban area with a residential neighbourhood
mainly with social housing for low income families uphill and an area with
various public buildings at the lower part of the valley. The elderly day
centre is in between these rather different social, programmatic and physical
realities, thus celebrating both its private and public character. The building
presents itself as a counterpoint to the architectural character of the
existing housing neighbourhood and therefore it tries to establish s strong
sense of architectural identity for the existing communities, through its
particular coloured and textured materials. The 60 dwellings are set out in two
rows facing east-west on four interconnected floors. The spatial sequences of
the circulation and of the voids in the central area are part of a bioclimatic
strategy which creates several meeting points for people to talk and allow
vertical transparency between floors. Conceptually this space will be
sufficiently flexible to allow residents to come to feel at home in the place
they live in. the ground floor is constructed by black slate volumes as a counterpoint
to the transparent large glazed areas which accommodate the building’s social
and most public spaces. On the outside, the private garden, which is a social
meeting point of the inhabitants of the Centre, appears as if were a visual
extension of the public space as it can be opened to the public as well. The
building/garden seeks to fit in between the various urban tensions that are
present in the landscape.
mainly with social housing for low income families uphill and an area with
various public buildings at the lower part of the valley. The elderly day
centre is in between these rather different social, programmatic and physical
realities, thus celebrating both its private and public character. The building
presents itself as a counterpoint to the architectural character of the
existing housing neighbourhood and therefore it tries to establish s strong
sense of architectural identity for the existing communities, through its
particular coloured and textured materials. The 60 dwellings are set out in two
rows facing east-west on four interconnected floors. The spatial sequences of
the circulation and of the voids in the central area are part of a bioclimatic
strategy which creates several meeting points for people to talk and allow
vertical transparency between floors. Conceptually this space will be
sufficiently flexible to allow residents to come to feel at home in the place
they live in. the ground floor is constructed by black slate volumes as a counterpoint
to the transparent large glazed areas which accommodate the building’s social
and most public spaces. On the outside, the private garden, which is a social
meeting point of the inhabitants of the Centre, appears as if were a visual
extension of the public space as it can be opened to the public as well. The
building/garden seeks to fit in between the various urban tensions that are
present in the landscape.
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