Óbidos Technological Park main buildings

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Óbidos Technological Park main buildings

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Industrial › Research Facility
Landscape + Planning › Public Park

The proposal for the Óbidos Technological Park main buildings try to suggest the memory of existing and relevant structures in the territory of the region. As often seen in the traditional built structures existent in the Óbidos region, this project assumes a quite simple and clear drawing concerning is mass. From the outside only a long and narrow textured strip is perceived over the natural landscape, evoking those long external walls seen in a few farms, convents and monasteries who punctuates this territory. This image of thin and subtle built elements punctuating the landscape was the the main archetypal principle supporting to development the project.
Underneath this perceived body, the two ground floor buildings almost disappear as such, integrated in the landscape of the place. The facade of those two covered bodies, a rusty and perforated textured metal surface with allusive and natural motifs, defines the built limits of the main external and convivial space.
A pure form, a voided square, floats over this central external space defining its limits and framing the views to the surrounding landscape and buildings. The spatial relation betwen the two ground floor textured facades, prolongated trough the retaining walls that conforms the space, try to evoque natural processes of landscape erosion, sugesting a tellurian sense to all the ground system.
All public spaces – auditorioum, restaurante, shops, library – are purposely located at ground floor in order to enhance public realm. Some workshop spaces are also located at ground floor aiming to sugest possible relations with the external public spaces reinforcing conviviality.
All the other working áreas – offices, open space, meeting rooms, workshops – are at first floor. This voided squar, almost closed to the outside and open to the inside, proposes a flexible grid in order to organize the program, aiming a great amount of freedom concerning changes in space uses.

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Jorge Mealha

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Óbidos Technological Park main buildings

Óbidos Technological Park main buildings

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