Dom Dinis High School
Dom Dinis High School
bak gordon arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
bak gordon arquitectos
YEAR
2008
AREA
10100 m²
PHOTOGRAPHS
Leonardo Finotti
CLIENT
Parque Escolar EPE
CATEGORY
Schools, Extension
LANDSCAPING
Proap
CONSTRUCTION
Mota-Engil
LOCATION
Lisbon, Portugal
COLABORATION
Luís Pedro Pinto, Pedro Serrazina, Sónia Silva, Vera Higino, Walter Perdigão
BUILDING AREA
2200m²
RENOVATED AREA
7900m²
FOUNDATIONS, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AND HYDRAULICS
Betar
ELECTRICS, COMMUNICATIONS, SECURITY, ACOUSTIC AND THERMAL
LMSA
BUDGET
9.500.000€
Text description provided by architect.
Since 2007 the Portuguese government has financed a programme to modernize state secondary schools by building new functional spaces and infrastructures that will improve the educational environment and raise the quality of teaching.
The intervention at this school was a pilot project to test models that could be used in the future.
The original school was constructed in the 1970s and consists of independent pavilions built for a short life.
A new building at the centre of the school provides new functional areas, and transforms the whole complex into one building.
This new pavilion is designed without a starting point or a finish and, located in the space between the old buildings, its shape contrasts with their regular geometry.
It has a sort of “learning street” where links between all the blocks are next to new areas such as the library, auditorium, computer rooms and informal work areas.
The new building has a flat roof, but as the floor rises in response to the topography of the site ceiling heights diminish, and this enhances the idea that there is an internal street.
