Aires Mateus and Associates

Mar do Oriente

Mar do Oriente
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

MAR DO ORIENTE 

Aires Mateus

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

LOCATION
Lisbon, Portugal

ARCHITECTS
Aires Mateus

AREA
7200.0 m2

YEAR
2008

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Mar do Oriente
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Mar do Oriente
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Text description provided by architect.

Over a platform, eight volumes are built, in which the significance of each volume is reinforced by repetition, not equal, but identical. The buildings have the same distance between themselves, repeating their external image, their height and width. The variation happens in their length and thus footprint on the platform.

Mar do Oriente
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Mar do Oriente
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

As abstract objects the volumes are on the border of the platform, releasing a vast area in the centre. In the core of the intervention, the platform slab is cut to illuminate the internal plaza, one level below, from where all the accesses to offices are located.

The square promotes the connection of all four surrounding streets. The façades expose a constant module, defined not by a materiality (concrete or stone) but by an immateriality: light alignments that cross from the gallery wall to the ceiling.

Mar do Oriente
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Mar do Oriente
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Mar do Oriente
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG


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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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West Elevation
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Aires Mateus and Associates
T +351 213 815650
Aires Mateus and Associates
R. Cecílio de Sousa 52, 1200-102 Lisboa, Portugal