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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
GalleryLuanda Houses — Angola
Luanda Houses — Angola
Housing and Urbanism, Other Projects
The approach to these two projects, similar yet featuring different programmes, had to be adjusted to previously established constraints and premises. The first house, partially developed into two storeys, wraps around a small garden which acts as an outdoor living area and articulates the surrounding interior spaces. In the second house, our premise was to develop a single storey house that made the most […]
GalleryFamily Houses, Aroeira — Portugal
Family Houses, Aroeira — Portugal
Housing and Urbanism
The project for these one family houses in Aroeira was a result of the client’s request to promote houses of clear contemporary character that stood out from the architecturally poor urban surroundings. Conditioned by several urban constraints and regulations, we maximised the available space, adding and subtracting volumes, creating separate areas and differentiated spaces in the projected floors.
As in big scale projects, A1V2 commits its […]
GalleryZ House — Angola
Z House — Angola
Housing and Urbanism
To maximise the construction area, this house was shaped as a parallelepiped to which the necessary elements to the definition of the floors were subtracted. This resulted in a Z shape that wraps around the residence, creating a defining image. Colour played an important part in the composition of the volume; the Z shape is further contrasted from the rest of the outer surface […]
GalleryRabat Master Plan — Morocco
Rabat Master Plan — Morocco
Reference Projects
Considered one of the principal urban centres not only in Morocco but in the whole north of Africa, Rabat presents immense potential. The recent urban regeneration
projects focused on construction, tourism, industry and technology are a clear sign that something is changing in Rabat.
The new master plan aims to reorganise the seven strategic sectors of the city to grant greater independence through the creation of […]
GalleryQuinta da Pesqueira — Portugal
Quinta da Pesqueira — Portugal
Selected Portfolio
The proposal for the house located in Quinta da Pesqueira included the complete remodelling and enlargement of a pre-existing habitation, which was severely degraded and presented serious issues. Facing south, the extension followed the original volumetric concept, maintaining a uniform whole.
In this way, we created a new front using new materials and better construction methods, conferring a contemporary character to the whole.
A1V2’s project was […]