Caneças High School
Caneças High School
Arx Arquitectos
FIRM
Arx Arquitectos
ARCHITECTURE
Arx Portugal, Arquitectos Lda. Nuno Mateus And José Mateuswork
OWNER
Parque Escolar Epe
DESIGN
Pedro Falcão
ARCHITECTURE
Traços Na Paisagemgraphic
BUILDING
11 600 M2total
TEAM
Ricardo Guerreiro, Fábio Cortês, Ana Fontes, João Dantas, Sofia Raposo, Mariana Sá, Emanuel Rebelo, Diana Afonso, Miguel Torres, Filipe Cardoso, Bruno Martins, Marc Anguill, Gaia Pelizzari, Rodrigo Henriqueslandscape
ENGENEERINGS
Safre, Estudos E Projectos De Engenharia Lda; Pen Engenharia; Ctq, Lda.; Solgen; Geotest3d
MODELING
Traços Na Paisagemgross
CONSTRUCTION SURFACE
School
SIZE
100,000 Sqft - 300,000 Sqft
INTERVENTION AREA
32 600 M2
YEAR
2013
LOCATION
Rua Da Escola Secundária, Caneças, Portugal
TYPE
Educational › Elementary School
The existent school is located in the outskirts of Caneças, Odivelas, in a territory of intense discontinuities.
The proposal is structured beginning in a double interpretation of the learning concept
formal learning and informal learning. Those two types are translated in the building in two different architectural approaches, maintaining a dialogue between them.
In consequence, the stiffness of the existent blocks, where the class rooms are placed, are structured like “learning machines”, in contrast with the informality of the new parts, enabling the “informal learning “in the collective spaces.
Considering that in the school, every spaces are teaching spaces, that each one as its own importance, the organization and articulation between spaces is meant to fluid, with physical and visual permeability, allowing a more spontaneous and creative appropriation, leading to the willing of learn through space.
The human relations and activities are, in the end, in the base of all knowledge. From a tectonic point of view, the solutions adopted give the building an idea of matter unity and grant the space an elementary and abstract character.
