Madan Park Building

Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

MADAN PARK BUILDING

PPST Arquitectura

ARCHITECTS
PPST Arquitectura: Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho, Pedro Palmero Cabezas, architects

LOCATION
Caparica, Portugal

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

CATEGORY
Offices

YEAR
2008

Text description provided by architect.

The building houses an incubator for technology based companies and is located at Monte da Caparica, Almada.

Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The form of the building results from a process in which the built mass is moulded and subtracted in response to the irregularity of the plot and the different functional requirements.

This dissolution of the volume blurs the limit between exterior and interior, rooting the construction to the soil.

Madan Park Building
Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The plot has two opposite street fronts, with a difference in levels of one floor.

Connecting these street fronts a large lobby with a monumental staircase crosses the building.

This space has a somewhat public character and constitutes a place of informal encounter for the occupants.

Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Madan Park Building

Walking through the building, visual perspectives unfold, relating different spaces, interior and exterior, public and private, sometimes crossing different floors.

The working spaces are very different from each other in their form and relation with the outside, breaking the stereotyped idea of an office building.

Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Madan Park Building
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


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second floor plan
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roof plan
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ground floor plan
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underground plan
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