The envelope of building, designed by M-AO, proposes a reflective shell intended to act as a frame creating new atmosphere in this caotic suburban area. As they say "Essentially we try to build fractions of out-and-outer moments which belong to whom inhabits our physical or intellectual spaces."
Description of project by M-AO
The site is located in a disperse territory - Vale do Ave region - which has been suffering turbulences along the decades leaving socioeconomic and spatial marks. Regarding this urban jumble that is imperfect and instable, the envelope proposes a reflective shell intended to act as a frame of its own condition.
Being placed as a regular box standing in an open field facing East, the building wants to ficcionate its own nature relating to a green corner as an idyllic approach to it.
The interior container sets up on a geometrized block, a mass, with the portuguese vernacular colours, that provokes a spatial reference, the administrative management condition.
