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Mythos Building

MYTHOS BUILDING

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Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG

ARCHITECTS
Arx

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
PROAP, Estudos e Projectos de Arquitectura Paisagista Lda.

SANITARY PLANNING
Aquaepro, Consultoria e Engenharia Lda.

MECHANICAL PLANNING
PEN, Projectos de Engenharia Lda.

STRUCTURAL PLANNING
SAFRE, Estudos e Projectos de Engenharia Lda. Electrical And Telecominications Planning, Gas And Security:AT, Serviços de Engenharia Lda.

DESIGN TEAM
Paulo Rocha, Sónia Luz, Bruno Gonçalves, Gonçalo Azevedo, Nuno Pinto, Ruden Arend, Sofia Raposo.

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Nuno Mateus, José Mateus

THERMAL, ENERGY AND ACOUSTIC PLANNING
NATURAL WORKS, Engineering Consultants

ELECTRICAL AND TELECOMINICATIONS PLANNING, GAS AND SECURITY
At Serviços De Engenharia Lda.

OWNER
IMOCOM

AREA
15300 m²

YEAR
2012

LOCATION
Lisbon, Portugal

CATEGORY
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Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG

This project was selected and invited, with 16 other project teams, for an international contest promoted by IMOCOM in July 2006.

The promoter had a well defined set of intentions: identity and contemporary singularity, good relationships with the views (river and city), bio-climatic design and exhibition of multimedia content to the outside.

Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG

We assumed that its contemporaneous character would be the outcome of a natural integration and synthesis of the several wills, with the specialities having an active role in the characterization of architecture.

The building was designed as an opaque orthogonal shell, black and protective, which creates a strong interiority/privacy.

The necessary transparencies were ripped at the corners, in one stroke aiming at getting the best views and protecting adequately the inside of the building from the sun rays.

Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG

As so to respond to the necessity to broadcast multimedia contents avoiding the plain installation of a multimedia panel on the façade, we studied a façade that would have lamellas of inlaid LEDs in the joints of the outside shell.

The building's body holds a mutant and ambiguous character: it changes and transforms according to the broadcasted contents.

Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG

There is still a concept for the "restitution of nature". The sum of the green areas inserted inside the building equals the totality of the lot's area.

The excavations at the corners of the black shell are designed as fictions of landscapes.

Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG

Fictions of "lakes with rushes" at the river side, and of "gardens" at the opposite side, filter the relationships indoors/outdoors and create a strong depth of the visual fields.

At nightfall, these fictions get an unexpected presence; in an evermore artificial urban context, they sparkle on the black background as natural "floating" drops.

Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG


Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
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Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
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Mythos Building
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Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG
Mythos Building
© Fernando Guerra I FG+SG


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