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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
GalleryWater supply system for the villages of Vestiaria, Bárrio and Cela — Portugal
Water supply system for the villages of Vestiaria, Bárrio and Cela — Portugal
Infrastructures
The project consists of a pre-existing lift station, main pressurised water supply system, reservoirs and a gravity feeder pipe between the reservoirs. The aim of this facility is to direct the municipal water supply from the Castelo lift station to Cela Nova, where a municipal reservoir will distribute water to the towns mentioned.
The system will serve 10.200 inhabitants; the feeder pipes are 7.490 m […]