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ÁLVARO SIZA
Álvaro Siza
TERRAÇOS DE BRAGANÇALISBOA - Portugal
COORDINATING ARCHITECTS
CONTRACTOR
COLLABORATING ARCHITECTS
PHOTOGRAPHY
1st phase: Clemente Menéres2nd phase: Miguel Nery
Ferrovial - Agromán, S.A.
Ashton RichardsFrancesca MontaltoClaúdia VogelCristina FerreirinhaVitor OliveiraMichele GiganteMaria MoitaMitsunori NakamuraAtsushi UenoTomoko Kawai
Jose Rodrigues
COLLABORATORS
STA - Segadães Tavares Associados, Lda.
António Segadães Tavares
António Vieira Pereira
Carlos Palma
João Gomes da Silva
Imopólis - Sociedade Gestora de Fundos de Investimento Imobiliário, S. A.
Project Management
Structure
Electrical Installation
Mechanical, Plumbing, Drainage and Gas
Landscape architecture
Client
BEGINNING OF CONSTRUCTION
END OF CONSTRUCTION
DATES
1992
2004
09
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Álvaro Siza COLLECTIVE HOUSINGLISBOA - Portugal
All five buildings share the same underground parking area (9002 m2), with three common entrances from Rua do Alecrim, while a circular ramp guarantees the connection between the various floors.
The building has a reinforced concrete structure, made up of columns and continuous, mushroom-shaped slabs.
On the basement level, the perimeter walls will be constructed according to the berlinesque shoring system with drained air cavity and double interior brick wall to avoid eventual infiltrations.
The construction above grade will have brick walls with air cavity and thermal insulation.
The interior partitions will be brick to plaster and paint.
The roofs will be flat, waterproofed and thermally insulated with an inverted roof system.
On Rua do Alecrim, exterior finish of the buildings will be Lioz stone up to the last floor of office or commercial spaces, and the remaining levels, which correspond to housing units, will be finished in tile. The buildings bordering Rua António Maria Cardoso will have a Lioz stone base until the first housing level and balconies of the buildings. The remaining wall surfaces will be finished in tile.
The exterior windows are double, in enameled wood, with interior shutters for solar protection.
The housing, service and commercial complex Terraços de Bragança occupies a parcel of nearly 5000 m2 situated between António Maria Cardoso and Alecrim, which arises in a perfectly consolidated area, like an interval that needs to be filled.
Care was taken to establish a dialogue with the environment to find the first motivations for the definition of the project; as well as to make a conscientious reading of the terrain, its topography, and the footprints left by those who had lived there and given it meaning. Those footprints trace back at least to the beginning of the14th century, the period of completion of the Muralla Fernandina city wall.
The construction of this defense structure clearly defined the border of the metropolis, reinforcing what once was a natural border - the strong existing slope in the terrain, previously assumed as the limit of the wall of the Convent of San Francisco da Cidade, from the 13th century (a Convent whose building still exists today and houses the Escola Superior de Belas Artes). These grounds had gradually been urbanized, on both the inside and the outside of the city walls, building new roads and buildings on the summit of the hillside, such as the palace of the Dukes of Bragança and, later, the Jansen Beer Factory
The demolitions carried out on the site twenty years ago had left a section of the city wall exposed, nowadays clearly visible, along with the tower and the extreme southwest access door to the city, as well as an ensemble of brick foundations which presumably belonged to the Jansen Beer Factory.
This ensemble sensibly divides the terrain in half longitudinally and parallel to the roads which, in the meantime had been opened: Rua António Maria Cardoso, on the inside, above, and Rua do Alecrim on the lower side. This topological, geographical and historical fragmentation which divides the terrain in two, connecting the parts parallel to the access roads, is adopted by the project, both in morphological and programmatic terms.
In this way, an ensemble of three buildings has been built on the terrain which borders the Rua do Alecrim, each facing the street and 15,5m in depth. The program is also similar: the ground floors (1 or 2 depending on the case) are intended for commerce, while the upper floors for offices and housing. On the high part of the site, the area which borders Rua António Maria Cardoso, two residential buildings were constructed. The two buildings contact the ground through columns, separated from each other by a large distance, defined to preserve the existing ruins of the Muralla Fernandina (city wall), historical testimony which greatly increases the value of the terrain. According to the previous inquiries made to IPPARNT, this will become a museum area, integrated in the open space of the housing and open to the public.
D E S C R I P T I V E B R I E F
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T E C H N I C A L D A T A
SURFACE AREA OF SITE
4.849,00 m2
SURFACE AREA OF ENSEMBLE
Building 1 257,30 m2
Building 2 639.55 m2
Building 3 929,70 m2
Public passage 70,00 m2
Building 4 705,20 m2
Building 5 260,50 m2
Total 2695,40 m2
CONSTRUCTED VOLUME
Building 1 4.847,00 m2
Building 2 7.807,00 m2
Building 3 11.938,80 m2
Public passage 2.128,30 m2
Building 4 11.988,80 m2
Building 5 4.397,50 m2
Total 43.107,40 m2
SURFACE AREA OF PAVEMENT
Building 1 1.587,00 m2
Building 2 2.432,90 m2
Building 3 3.993,20 m2
Public passage 344,50 m2
Building 4 4.220,10 m2
Building 5 1.291,70 m2
Total 13.869,40 m2
AREA OF PUBLIC SPACE
2.153,60 m2
INDEX OF RECLAMATION
2,86
INDEX OF OCCUPATION
0,55
WATERPROOFED SURFACE AREA
2.934,10 m2
GROSS CONSTRUCTED SURFACE AREA
13.869,40 m2
GROSS CONSTRUCTED AREA ABOVE GRADE
9.002,60 m2
TOTAL GROSS CONSTRUCTION AREA
22.872,00 m2
FLOOR LEVELS ABOVE GRADE
Building 1 6
Building 2 5
Building 3 4/5
Public passage
Building 4 5
Building 5 4
FLOOR LEVELS BELOW GRADE
Building 1,2 e 3 3
Building 4 e 5 5/2
NUMBER OF HOUSING UNITS
36
NUMBER OF OFFICE UNITS
10
NUMBER OF COMMERCIAL SPACES
7
NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES
187
NUMBER OF STORAGE UNITS
41
FAÇADE HEIGHT
Building 1 17,50 m
Building 2 16,80 m
Building 3 17,80/14,70 m
Public passage 17,20 m
Building 4 18,20 m
Building 5 17,00 m
DEPTH
Building 1 15,00 m
Building 2 15,50 m
Building 3 15,50 m
Public passage 15,50 m
Building 4 15,50/19,20 m
Building 5 12,40/14,90 m
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South elevation
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Interior East elevation
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Section
Section
Section
1. Parking lot 2. Machine room 3. Storage room 4. Waste room 5. Room 6. Garden storage 7. Technical gallery 8. Antechamber 9. Access corridor 10. Ventilation room
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Floor level 0
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Floor level 3
1. Parking lot 2. Machine room 3. Pump room 4. Tank 5. Technical gallery 6. Stock area 7. Ventilation room 8. Waste room 9. Loading / Unloading area 10. Shop 1 (floor 1) 11. Shop 2 (floor 2) 12. Shop 3 13. Shop 4 14. Ventilator room 15. Storage room 16. Void 17. Desk 18. Small office 19. Medium office 20. Large office 21. Library 22. Reception 23. Archive 24. Meeting room 25. P. Trasf. 26. Garden storage
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Floor level 5
Partial floor plan, height level 32.94
27. Lobby28. Corridor29. Single room30. Hall31. Living room32. Dining room33. Balcony34. Laundry35. Terrace36. Service room37. Water
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The two buildings contact the ground through columns, separated from each other by a large distance, defined to preserve the existing ruins of the Muralla Fernandina (city wall), historical testimony which greatly increases the value of the terrain.
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Floor level 6
27. Lobby28. Corridor29. Bedroom30. Hall31. Living room32. Dining room33. Balcony34. Laundry35. Terrace36. Service room37. Water
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Sección D 3
D 3
1. Row of Stone,23cm from axis 2. Acerto Tiles 3. Alignmemt L. Special Stone type L U. Special Stone type U V. Special Stone type V M. Special Stone type M C. Special Stone type C
Cut stone Brick Concrete
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