Inês Lobo Arquitectos

Art and Architecture Faculty

Art and Architecture Faculty
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ART AND ARCHITECTURE FACULTY 

Inês Lobo Arquitectos + Ventura Trindade Arquitectos

ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS, TELECOMMUNICATION AND SECURITY
GPIC, Natural Works, Ruben Sobral, Fernando Aires, Alexandre Martins Heating

PROJECT REVISION
Rui Prata Ribeiro Lda, Rui Prata Ribeiro, Paula Balseiro

HYDRAULIC INSTALLATIONS
Marta Azevedo, Betar

CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
ACF, O FELIZ

STRUCTURES
ADF Engenheiros Consultores, Pedro Morujão

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Global Arquitectura Paisagista Lda, João Gomes da Silva

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Inês Lobo Arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
Inês Lobo Arquitectos + Ventura Trindade Arquitectos

PHOTOGRAPHS
Leonardo Finotti

AREA
10000.0 m²

LOCATION
Evora, Portugal

YEAR
2009

DESIGN TEAM
Inês Lobo, João Maria Trindade, João Rosário, Gilberto Reis, Pedro Oliveira, Júlia Varela, João Vaz, Sérgio Pereira, Rafael Marques, Emanuel Romão, Filipe Soares, Sónia Ribeiro, Chiara Ternullo, Nuno Marcos, Lourenço Van Innis, Filipe Carvalho, Filipe Nunes, Nélson Rodrigues, Bruno Banha, Rita Figueiredo

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1916 - 1970 Original programme. Built in 1916, the Alentejo Milling Society became the Leões pasta factory in the 1970s.

Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Seen from a distance from the historic centre and the approach in direction of the old Leões factory allows one to understand that, oddly enough, its principle value consists of its excessive volume that is imposed abruptly on the plateau.

Buildings designed around the machines they would house, and not around people, in physical or transcendental terms, who are reduced to mere operators, workers, simple cogs in the machine.

Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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2006 – 2009 New programme. University of the arts, department of visual arts and department of architecture

A partially occupied but machine-less building, appropriated by man. Spaces that, due to their versatility and relationship with the territory, became places for teaching.

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Art and Architecture Faculty
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The annexes that were not part of the original construction were removed, as were all provisional construction inside the building. The spatial nature of the buildings became clear.

A building is added that substitutes the annexes, thus configuring the courtyard afresh, with associated workshops, a cafeteria and a lean-to.

Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Other infrastructures were added to the existing spaces, which provide the necessary facilities for teaching, and extra furniture.

With increasing knowledge of old industrial spaces and systems we find some of the strategies to reuse in the construction of the schools.

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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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First are the large coverings that protected the railway platform and other loading and unloading areas, which could hardly contrast more in their delicate lightness with the enormous mass of the constructions.

Now re-introduced, it shelters teachers and students instead of products and raw materials, constructing the meeting place of the school ensemble, it outlines the main patio establishing a visual relationship between all the spaces of the ensemble, whose central open space is an unexpected green field which is reminiscent of university campuses, until then so distant from this context.

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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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This body connects the different elements at the same time as it constructs the School space, a large and elongated atrium, a kind of backbone that allows bodies that were previously isolated to function once more, becoming part of a single structure.


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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Art and Architecture Faculty
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Calçada do Duque de Lafões 76 a 80 R/C 1950-102 Lisboa , Portugal
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