Aires Mateus and Associates

Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum

SANTA MARTA LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM

Aires Mateus

Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
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ARCHITECTS
Aires Mateus

COLLABORATORS
Sofia Chinita Janeiro, Filipe Boím, Paola Marini

YEAR
2007

AREA
435.0 sqm

ENGINEER
Joel Sequeira, Joule

CONSTRUCTOR
Udra, construtora, lda

 AUTHORS
Manuel Aires Mateus, Francisco Aires Mateus

CATEGORY
Museum

LOCATION
Cascais, Portugal

Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
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Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
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Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus

Text description provided by architect.

Stuck between land and water, along a strip of terrain under permanent change as times went by, human intervention has grounded its most varied settlements.

From the 17th Century onwards the amassing of different plans for this place, the material and technological resources employed on each epoch and the convenience of the granted heritage concur to a series of conversions and extensions.

Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
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Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus
Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus

Nevertheless the locale features architectonic units of unequivocal reading, disposed according to organizational principles still quite clear.

The adulteration and decay of some of its parts is the outcome of a process of natural selection the project seeks to revert to its benefit.

Singling out the elements of greater permanence and poetic value, the proposal rebuilds with them and from them a founding order, encapsulating the memory of the elapsed time allowing for its new usage as a museum of the lighthouse.

Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
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Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus


Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus
Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus
Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus
Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus
Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus
Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus


Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus
Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus
Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus
Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
© Aires Mateus


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Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
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Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
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