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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
GalleryContemporary Art Center, Tavira — Portugal
Contemporary Art Center, Tavira — Portugal
Others
The proposed museum is organised around an interior courtyard which allows the use of natural light to illuminate the space and the pieces exhibited. Our solution was developed as a single-storey building set on the same level as the loading area, which allows for the entire area of study and future archaeological investigation to remain obstacle-free.
In this request for tenders, A1V2 set itself apart […]
GalleryLibrary and Municipal Archive, Grândola — Portugal
Library and Municipal Archive, Grândola — Portugal
Selected Portfolio
The shape chosen for the new Library and Municipal Archive building of Grândola was that of a parallelepiped to which matter was subtracted in certain points to give room to several courtyards, namely one in the entrance, where the main access is located. The covering was worked into a reinterpretation of the water system, similar to what is seen in nearly all surrounding buildings. […]
GalleryMinistry of Territory Administration — Angola
Ministry of Territory Administration — Angola
Others
The project for the headquarters of the Ministry of Territory Administration of Angola (Ministério da Administração do território) consisted of the characterisation of the various spaces in the building. It focused on the study of finishing furniture and decoration. In this way, spatial composition structures the environment, attending to the features and functions of each compartment and establishing a logical spatial hierarchy. The use […]
GalleryNew International Airport of Angola (NAIA)
New International Airport of Angola (NAIA)
Reference Projects
The New International Airport of Angola (NAIA), located 40 km south-east of Luanda, was designed as an alternative to the Quatro de Fevereiro Airport. It was inserted into the context adjacent to the current general master plan and integrated proximity principles to the programmed new urban facilities, fundamental strategic vectors to the territorial consolidation of this new urban infrastructure. The construction and improvement of […]