The intervention in Marquesa de Alorna School (Lisbon) aims to adapt the original and nowadays out-of-time model of the 50s to the new needs of the school type. The design results in an interesting clash between the parameters of the original 1956's architecture regulated by organizations and the individual creativity of the architect.

The project works over what has already been built from two different approaches: The first intervention consists of the updating of the existing architecture to the minimum standards of the current times. The second approach is the addition of new bodies, each with its own identity and functions: a tower of laboratories and drawing rooms, a library-bridge and a half-buried spa.

Description of the project by José Neves

The existing Marquesa de Alorna School, designed by architect José Sobral Blanco in 1956, was one of the 50 schools built in Portugal according to the type promoted by the Construction Board for Secondary and Technical Education in the 1950’s

As part of the "School Modernization Program" of the Parque Escolar, our project provides for two types of intervention, namely:

a) In the existing building, the atrium, corridors and stairs, generously proportioned with its floor and wainscots in hydraulic mosaic; the exterior walls in painted plaster; the window frames in painted wood and the roof in flat tiles are restored. The existing classrooms receive new elements to bring more comfort - a suspended ceiling, a window blind, a wall;

b) On the other hand, three new bodies are added to the set:

1) A tower with the new laboratories and drawing rooms, west of the existing wing containing the classrooms;

2) A body, designed as a bridge, with the library, links the existing body that contains the gym and the cafeteria to the classrooms. Under this bridge, a covered playground, designed as an outdoor hypostyle room and relating directly to the students room, restore the original visual continuity between the main atrium and the patio of the school;

3) A semi-buried body of spas under the sports field which is protected by a plant structure that partly recovers the green screen earlier realized by the woods.

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Rui Sousa Pinto, André Matos, Bernardo Enes Dias, Filipe Cameira, Hugo Ferreira, Nuno Florêncio, Vitor Quaresma; João Pernão, Maria Capelo.
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Landscape Architecture.- Proap.
Engineering.- Betar, Joule, Natural Works.
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2007-2008 (project), 2008-2010 (construction).


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Lisbon, Portugal.
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Laura Castro Caldas & Paulo Cintra.
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José Neves, born in Lisbon in 1963, graduated in Architecture from Lisbon Technical University School of Architecture in 1986. That same year he represented Portugal in the 2nd Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, in Thessaloniki, selected by the Secretariat of State for Culture.

From 1986 to 1990 he worked with Duarte Cabral de Mello and since 1991 he has participated in several projects with Vítor Figueiredo. That same year he opened his own office.

He received the SECIL ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2012, the VALMOR AWARD 2011, the honourable mention of VASCO VILALVA AWARD FOR HERITAGE RENOVATION AND RESTORATION 2015, attributed by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the TORRES VEDRAS TOWN HALL 1ST PRIZE OF ARCHITECTURE 1996-2000. He was selected for the PREMIS FAD INTERIORISME 2015, the BIGMAT ARCHITECTURE INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2015 and was a finalist in the PREMIS FAD PENSAMENT I CRÍTICA 2015.

He was a guest professor in the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon, in the Department of Architecture of the Lusída University and in the Architecture Department of the Autónoma University. He is currently giving classes in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of ISCTE.

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Published on: December 10, 2015
Cite: "A school in Lisbon by José Neves" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/a-school-lisbon-jose-neves> ISSN 1139-6415
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