GalleryIntegrated Urban Plans — Angola
Integrated Urban Plans — Angola
Reference Projects
This urbanization plan was inserted into an emerging territorial structure, whose goal was to promote Luanda as a “World City”. Its purpose was to give a set of essential urban factors to the population, among which: employment and economic dynamics; increase of the habitational park; population rehousing; effective mobility and transport networks; improvement of the health system and education; a greater variety of spaces […]
GalleryLobito Mineral Terminal — Angola
Lobito Mineral Terminal — Angola
Reference Projects
The mineral terminal will be developed on the eastern shore of the Lobito Bay, between the existing cement factory (Secil Lobito) and the future refinery port (Sonaref). This project includes all the equipment and facilities necessary to perform port operations. The intervention covers the execution of an artificial platform with materials derived from the excavation of the mountain and dredging of the bay, which […]
GallerySalé – Kenitra Urban Requalification – Morocco
Reference Projects
The proposal for the Route Kénitra (RN1) and surrounding areas, in a total length of approximately 8 km, is divided into five consecutive areas of intervention, where roadway and architectural renewal of the urban space occurred. Each area possessed specific features. As such, different intervention strategies were defined for each one, to improve and enhance their individual characteristics, while safeguarding and valuing cultural and […]
GalleryModular Sustainable City, Jeddah — Saudi Arabia
Reference Projects
This proposal suggests the development of an urban plan for a modular and sustainable city, covering an area of approximately 2500 hectares. It includes the construction of 61 200 houses to serve more than 360 700 inhabitants. Of these, about 56 300 are meant for collective housing, accommodating around 338 000 people, 2600 are single family homes (kingdom’s official model), serving around 15 600 […]
GalleryRailway connection between Lobito Port and Benguela Railway — Angola
Railway connection between Lobito Port and Benguela Railway — Angola
Selected Portfolio
The aim of this project was to define the geometry of the layout of the railway connecting the Lobito Port (container terminal area to the west) to the Benguela railway line to be rehabilitated on the eastern side of the port. The total length of the project was of 3,6 km, and it included a new railway bridge.
This line is intended to improve the […]
GalleryMarinha Grande Municipal Swimming Pool Building — Portugal
Marinha Grande Municipal Swimming Pool Building — Portugal
Selected Portfolio
The rectangular Municipal Swimming Pool building extended over an area of 4.000 m2 and conformed to the guidelines of the detail plan – streets, car parks and boundaries. We explored several effects to introduce dynamism and diversity to the front, as well as to promote the necessary amounts of shade and effective control of sunlight exposure, using an external covering of polycarbonate plastic and […]
GalleryPORTANORTE – Recreational and leisure park — Portugal
PORTANORTE – Recreational and leisure park — Portugal
Selected Portfolio
The enterprise was located in an area peripheral to the urban grid, relatively rural, whose characteristics perfectly matched the implantation of this recreational park.
Nature, Tradition, Education, Leisure and Sports were themes that were developed and implanted throughout the park, linked by networks of pedestrian and thematic paths.
Throughout the complex, Nature as a motif was developed, in an architectural proposal intimately connected to the terrain. […]
GalleryMedispa, Luanda — Angola
Medispa, Luanda — Angola
Selected Portfolio
Underlying the proposal was the idea of an analysis and exercise of reflection about the nature of a Medispa, not just in relation to the obvious spatial and equipment needs, but mostly about the implicit characteristics, predominant elements and expectations of the clients that come to use the space.
This reflection set the guiding principles and themes of the solution, namely: water, isolation, relaxation, landscape, […]
GalleryRoad accesses to IKEA road network requalification — Portugal
Road accesses to IKEA road network requalification — Portugal
Selected Portfolio
In 2003, the commercial area of Alfragide, located on the border between the administrative regions of Lisbon, Amadora and Oeiras, was characterised as a heavily industrialised area that hosted four major commercial surfaces: Aki, Decathlon, Jumbo and Makro. This was the location chosen by the Swedish group IKEA, world leader in the distribution of furniture and home decoration articles, to establish its first store […]
GalleryIP2 — Hospital Junction — Portugal
IP2 — Hospital Junction — Portugal
Selected Portfolio
Although the city of Castelo Branco already possessed a district hospital, in 2000 there were no privileged accesses connecting the hospital to the national road network, namely via IP 2. In this public request for tenders, A1V2 developed the Detailed Design of an uneven junction based on the pre-existing geometries of IP 2 and EN 233.
The intervention included the creation of connections between these […]