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AIRES MATEUS ARCHITECTES
Houses for eldery people in Alcácer do Sal
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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1 architect, 1 building
A project story
Commission, constraints, construction, clients, regulations... the considerations of a professional architect.
Guest architects tell the story of one of their projects through a complete chronology - from commission to construction, to occupation by the user.
The aim of this lecture series is to give people a better understanding of the architectural profession: the difficulties faced, the links established with clients and stake-holders and the architects thoughts on commissions and regulations as they vary from country to country.
Each lecture gives the public an inside view of the architect's work, discovered through the unfolding of a particular construction project.
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