Aires Mateus and Associates

Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal

Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

HOUSES FOR ELDERY PEOPLE IN ALCÁCER DO SAL

Aires Mateus

ARCHITECTS
Aires Mateus

YEAR
2010

LOCATION
Alcácer Do Sal, Portugal

CATEGORY
Retirement, Housing

Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Text description provided by architect.

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.

Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

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.

Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

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.


Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Houses for Eldery People in Alcácer do Sal
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Aires Mateus and Associates
T +351 213 815650
Aires Mateus and Associates
R. Cecílio de Sousa 52, 1200-102 Lisboa, Portugal