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Keywords Change this
Project timeline
2008 – 2010
Type
Residential
Location Change this
Alcácer do SalPortugal
Also known as Change this
House for elderly people
Architect Change this
Team
Francisco Aires Mateus
Manuel Aires Mateus
Giacomo Brenna, Paola Marini
Anna Bacchetta
Miguel Pereira
Client Change this
Santa Casa da Misericordia de Alcácer do Sal
Partners Change this
General contractorRamos Catarino, Sa
Structural engineers
Engitarget, lda
Specialist services
ABAP Luis Alçada Batista (Landscape architect)
Nursing home in Alcácer do Sal Change this
Description Change this
The project is based on a attentive reading of the life of a very specific kind of community, a sort of a micro-society with its own rules. It is a program, somewhere in between a hotel and a hospital, that seeks to comprehend and reinterpret the combination social/private, answering to the needs of a social life, and at the same time of solitude. Independents unities aggregate into a unique body, whose design is expressive and clear.
The reduct mobility of those who will live in the building suggests that any displacement should be an emotive and variable experience. The distance between the independent units is measured and drawn to turn the idea of path into life, and its time into form. The building, designed path, is a wall that naturally rises from the topography: it limits and defines the open space, organizing the entire plot.
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