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Tabuaço Municipal Pools

Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes

TABUAÇO MUNICIPAL POOLS

Topos Atelier de Arquitectura

PHOTOGRAPHS
Xavier Antunes

AREA
2059.0 m2

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Tabuaço, Portugal

CATEGORY
Swimming Pool

Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes

Text description provided by architect.

The building is located in an area of difficult geological, topographical and accessibility conditions.

Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes

The choice of this location, near the city park, the outdoor swimming pools, the sports hall and schools, aims to create a center of educational activities capable of producing a momentum for the consolidation and upgrading of the urban environment of this part of the city.

For the viability of the terrain, it was necessary to design a new route that by continuing the existing fabric, will fix part of the urban expansion around the existing core.

Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes

The first sketches, as opposed to a distortion of the slopes by the existing construction, pointed to the need to create a building integrated, simple, monolithic, 'snapped' to the slope and totally oriented to the landscape.

Developing the project on this concept, the design showed two possible "compositions" - the axis of access and entry to the building that, dipping trough the ramp or the stairs, still offers a perspective of a rural landscape; and the axis of the valley, parallel to the slope that opens on a vast landscape, seen through the building from the access square and trough the pool’s main building.

Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes


Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
© Xavier Antunes


Tabuaço Municipal Pools
South Elevation
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
Elevation
Tabuaço Municipal Pools


Tabuaço Municipal Pools
South Elevation
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
North Elevation
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
North Elevation


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Floor Plan
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Floor Plan
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Floor Plan
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Site Plan


Tabuaço Municipal Pools
Sketch
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
Sketch
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
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Tabuaço Municipal Pools
Sketch
Tabuaço Municipal Pools
Sketch

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