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.
GallerySpecial Rehabilitation Plan Of The Cacuaco City Shoreline — Angola
Special Rehabilitation Plan Of The Cacuaco City Shoreline — Angola
Selected Portfolio
In this project, we created a network of local interfaces that structured areas essential to the location of reference infrastructures. We also materialised an area of reference utilities and facilities on a metropolitan and national level (sports city, multimedia centre, casino, marina, commercial zone). We identified vast open areas destined to protect against the risk of flooding, making use of their natural resources and […]
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. […]
GalleryBata International Airport — Equatorial Guinea
Bata International Airport — Equatorial Guinea
Selected Portfolio
Located in the African continent, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea is currently one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Bata is its largest city and it was in this context, framed by the territorial development politics of the country, that the project for a new international passenger terminal at Bata Airport was originated – an iconic work of contemporary architecture, inspired by and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
GalleryUrban regeneration of the Annakhil Avenue – Morocco
Urban regeneration of the Annakhil Avenue – Morocco
Selected Portfolio
The development study of the Annakhil Avenue in Rabat was linked to the Transport and Traffic Master Plan (SDTC) of the Great Rabat-Salé-Temara, created in 2008 by the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior. The proposal sought to provide a solution to the most relevant aspects of urban planning; its main objective was to promote quality public pedestrian paths along the avenue and surrounding streets, at the same time as […]