GalleryFilling stations — Angola
Filling stations — Angola
Others
The project included the design of several filling stations, improving traffic conditions and harmonization of stations and their location. The solutions developed for these stations have taken into account all equipment necessary for their effective use: refueling stations (for light and heavy vehicles and motorcycles), convenience store, medical facilities, parking and fuel storage.
GalleryHuambo water tower — Angola
Infrastructures, Other Projects
The need to design a water tower to supply water in Huambo was due to the terrain topography not allowing a proper operation of the water distribution network, namely, the failure to comply with minimum pressures from a supported reservoir.
GalleryLar Cristão II Retirement Home — Portugal
Housing and Urbanism
This project involved the structural and foundations design for a retirement home for the Associação de Beneficiência Evangélica – Lar Cristão.
This rectangular building of approximately 40 x 17 m is 8,90 metres tall and divided into three storeys. The total construction area is of 1.573,10 m2. The adopted solution featured a reinforced concrete cantilevered structure with the columns spaced according to a regular grid. […]
GalleryMorocco Reservoirs
Morocco Reservoirs
Infrastructures
This feasibility study for the design of reservoirs in Morocco involved several typical solutions: buried and surface reservoirs both, of either circular or rectangular section, and with capacities for 500 m3, 1.000 m3, 2.000 m3, 2.500 m3 and 5.000 m3. The structural solution to all possibilities was to use reinforced concrete, combining retaining and structural walls and also inner columns. The main constraint was […]
GalleryLinda-a-Velha School — Portugal
Linda-a-Velha School — Portugal
Education, Other Projects
The proposal for the Linda-a-Velha Primary School possessed both features of a nursery school, municipal library, public garden and underground car park.
The school complex was designed as a group of three separate bodies. The first two, the preschool and primary school, were articulated through the main hall/waiting area. The third body, independent from the other two and annex to the outdoors sports field, encompassed […]
GalleryRailway branches for the logistical plataforms of Angofret — Angola
Railway branches for the logistical plataforms of Angofret — Angola
Infrastructures, Other Projects, Projects
It was the goal of this study to analyse layout solutions to the railway branches that connect the future logistic platforms of Angofret to the Benguela line, part of the National Logistic Platform Network of Angola. These lines seek to improve the flow and operation conditions associated with the transport of containerised cargo, seizing the window of opportunity that the rehabilitation of the Benguela […]
GalleryRailway branches of Cimenfort — Angola
Railway branches of Cimenfort — Angola
Infrastructures, Other Projects
The feasibility study, base project and final design for the railway branches connecting the CIMENFORT cement factory to the Benguela line extended over a length of 2,2 km. The goal of this study was to define the layout geometry of this railway connection, including drainage and ancillary works.
This line was intended to improve the flow of cargo (raw materials and final products) associated to […]
GalleryPorto Salvo Primary School — Portugal
Porto Salvo Primary School — Portugal
Education, Other Projects
The terrain relative to the Porto Salvo Primary and Nursery School proposal possessed excellent road accesses and good solar exposition. It was part of an area destined for the future implantation of collective housing blocks. The solution presented by A1V2 distributes the functional programme of the school complex into two buildings complemented by outdoor areas, such as circulation areas and outdoor and indoor yards.
A1V2’s […]
GalleryResidential building, V.F. de Xira — Portugal
Residential building, V.F. de Xira — Portugal
Housing and Urbanism, Other Projects
Due to the irregular shape of the terrain where the project was based, a terrain with several indents and obliquely aligned with the pre-existing structures, it became a necessity to develop an especially efficient solution that conformed to the legal pre-requisites. These constraints determined the general layout of the new building, consisting of a total of four floors. In the formal concept, the main […]
GalleryAllotment of Cacuaco — Angola
Allotment of Cacuaco — Angola
Housing and Urbanism, Other Projects
The proposed solution for this parcelling of sites aimed to integrate a great number of buildings into a limited terrain, in a context framed by featureless pre-existing houses. This developed buildings were divided into various categories: houses for the administration (8 units), common houses (73 units), leisure and public centre, reception, laundry and gym. An additional concern was that this solution be adapted to […]