arcvision Prize Women and Architecture 2014 The Winner LISBON, PORTUGAL Portuguese architect Ines Lobo (Lisbon, 1966) is the winner of the second edition of the arcvision Prize - Women and Architecture. Ines Lobo, a graduate of the Technical University of Lisbon (FAULT, 1989) established her own architecture office in 2002. She combines professional practice with teaching at the Autonoma University in Lisbon. The jury unanimously selected Ines Lobo as the 2014 winner of the ArcVision Prize Women and Architecture as a versatile architect who was recognized for the ability to work at different scales, integrating new buildings within existing urban fabric and creatively attacking complex architectural problems. Much of her work involves additions to and conversion of old buildings. Among her outstanding projects, many of which are in the public realm and located in Portugal, is the Art and Architecture Faculty in Evora, where annexes were substituted with new construction and the courtyard newly configured. Taking inspiration from the existing industrial architecture and its systems, she defined strategies to employ in the new construction, yet her work is clearly contemporary - informed by the past, but looking toward the future. In the office building for the headquarters of Ferreira Construction, she balanced the existing building, green space and the new construction. Using translucent material to manage the light entering the new building, she creates an interesting façade that changes throughout the hours of day and night. She is precise, very skilled in terms of use and combination of materials. Although her buildings may seem understated, they are extremely powerful in terms of geometry and radical in their approach. The jury spoke of the rich counterpoint that she establishes between existing buildings and the new additions she creates. The jury highlighted the integrity and authenticity of her works. Her buildings reflect her independent and free approach to architecture, at the same time her works are rigorous and uncompromising.
AVELAR BROTERO SECONDARY SCHOOL PROJECT DATA Location Coimbra, Portugal Use of the Building Secondary School Construction Period 2007 2010 Avelar Brotero Secondary School was founded in 1884, is a building complex essentially made up of three blocks, sets of spaces structured together around a central open space. A first block accupies the length of the Rua General Humberto Delgado were the classrooms, laboratories, administrative areas and library are the found. Linked to this block, a central block houses the gymnasium and the changing rooms, as well as the canteen and bar, and a small group of classrooms, in two separate arms of the main body. A final large Block is made up of the workshop areas, which complete the building complex. The outer spaces are the most part occupied by sports fields. Having identified the advantages and disadvantages that the building offers in the current state been, we now move on to define an action strategy according to four basic vectors: defining new teaching areas; redefining accessibility; redistributing the program me; clarifying circulation. The new teaching areas contemplated in this intervention are those already identified in the situation and it stands. Thus, the areas to be build are: an indoor sports center and a gymnasium, to be established semi-interred at the western end to the central yard a teacher working and support area, to be established at mid height, embedded in the current slope, which flanks the central yard to the south; two general support spaces, in the category of meeting spaces, in two volumes established on the terraces of the two arms of the central body: the bar and the multi purpose room.
AVELAR BROTERO SECONDARY SCHOOL
AVELAR BROTERO SECONDARY SCHOOL
ART AND ARCHITECTURE FACULTY PROJECT DATA Location Évora, Portugal Use of the Building Faculty Construction Period 2006 2009 A building is added that substitutes the annexes, thus configuring the courtyard afresh, with associated workshops, a cafeteria and a lean-to. Other infrastructures were added to the existing spaces, which provide the necessary facilities for teaching, and extra furniture. With increasing knowledge of old industrial spaces and systems we find some of the strategies to reuse in the construction of the schools. First are the large coverings that protected the railway platform and other loading and unloading areas, which could hardly contrast more in their delicate lightness with the enormous mass of the constructions. Now re-introduced, the covering shelters teachers and students instead of products and raw materials, constructing the meeting place of the school ensemble, it outlines the main patio establishing a visual relationship between all the spaces of the ensemble, whose central open space is an unexpected green field which is reminiscent of university campuses, until then so distant from this context. This body connects the different elements at the same time as it constructs the School space, a large and elongated atrium, a kind of backbone that allows bodies that were previously isolated to function once more, becoming part of a single structure.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE FACULTY
ART AND ARCHITECTURE FACULTY
FERREIRA CONSTRUCTION HEADQUARTERS PROJECT DATA Location Porto, Portugal Use of the Building Office Building Construction Period 2006 2009 The project refers to the corporate headquarters of Ferreira Construction company. It was a detached house set at the front of a lot comprising a garden and a set of annexes designing the perimeter of the whole area and its rear boundaries. The diverse elements of the complex formed an unbalanced composition, the whole area being overcrowded and congested because of the several additions that over the years had reduced the small green central spot. The situation was the same with the main house: a volume of relatively small size that was expanded with subsequent building and design additions, thus becoming a faint and unremarkable volume. As regards the green spot framing the main house, it was of particular importance in defining the volumetric balance of the whole area given the small size of the lot. The building design aimed at restoring the balance of the original design of the house and the surrounding green space, addressing some main objectives: - highlighting the volume of the main house in order to make it more relevant - restoring as much as possible the original solution - tailoring this program to the existing building - creating a more direct link between the main house and garden.
FERREIRA CONSTRUCTION HEADQUARTERS
FERREIRA CONSTRUCTION HEADQUARTERS