Around courtyard. Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos
07/06/2021.
[Grândola] Portugal
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The team of architects by Matos Gameiro Arquitectos, and by Pedro Domingos Arquitectos, has built the new library and municipal archive of Grândola, Portugal, and the renovation of Praça da República, the access square to the public building.
The complex, sheltered behind several lines of palm trees, is based on the abstract reinterpretation of the local Portuguese architecture and its characteristic houses; straight lines and thick walls of brilliant and pristine white.
The complex, sheltered behind several lines of palm trees, is based on the abstract reinterpretation of the local Portuguese architecture and its characteristic houses; straight lines and thick walls of brilliant and pristine white.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos. Photograph by Francisco Nogueira.
Basemente plan. Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos.
Ground floor plan. Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos.
Level 01 plan. Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos.
Sections and elevations. Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos.
Sections and elevations. Grândola´s Library and Municipal Archive by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos.
The project by Pedro Matos Gameiro and Pedro Domingos revolves around a patio that distributes the different uses around it. This cloister is considered the main room of the building and, due to its nature and scale, this space allows the most diverse events to take place, complementing and expanding the scope of the reference program.
On the ground floor, there is the reception space, the common areas for exhibitions and presentations, and the children's reading room, while on the upper part there are the archive areas and the adult reading room that opens onto a balcony with a view of the square.
On the ground floor, there is the reception space, the common areas for exhibitions and presentations, and the children's reading room, while on the upper part there are the archive areas and the adult reading room that opens onto a balcony with a view of the square.
Description of project by Matos Gameiro Arquitectos and Pedro Domingos
The Grândola’s new Library and Municipal Archive is accessed through the set of palm trees that structure the renovated Praça da República, now purged of all the noisy and conflicting elements, which have been removed from there in search for a more pacified order. This square is the central place of the city and the epicenter between the Municipal Garden, to the southwest, and the Orange tree garden, to the east. The new building forms part of the square and - due to its scale and program - constitutes itself as a reference element that counterpoints the urban continuum. In this sense, our concern has been to elucidate the building’s presence in the square, making it clear, solid and identifiable, and to include it in the network of streets by creating a continuity between the forecourt drawn by the square and the interior spaces of the building.
One enters through a cloister, which constitutes the main room of the building and which creates the pause that precedes the function, the moment when the movement soothes down and the noise is replaced by the delicate sound of the running water in the fountain, which marks the arrival. The galleries around the central courtyard generate paths that promote a gradual adjustment of scale, evoking protection and shade, and guiding the way around the gravel court and the jacaranda tree that is planted there. Due to its nature and scale, this space, geometrically established in the urban complex, determines the foundational place and allows for the occurrence of the most diverse events, complementing and widening the scope of action of the reference program, which here gravitates around this great enclosure open to the sky – below, the reception space, the common areas for exhibitions and presentations and the children's reading room; on top, the archive areas and the adult reading room that opens onto a balcony, overlooking the square.
The set, in its abstract shape of thick walls and southern whiteness, seeks to keep the mystery and to build paths of discovery, like the books it contains.
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Architects
Pedro Matos Gameiro, Matos Gameiro arquitectos. Pedro Domingos, Pedro Domingos arquitectos.
Project team
Paulo Dias, João Varela, João Carlos Lopes, Abílio Silva, Pedro Gonçalves, Raquel Pereira.
Client
Grândola´s Municipality.
Contractor
Habitâmega.
Collaborators
Structures.- Fernando Rodrigues, Alves Rodrigues & Associados. Electricity and telecommunications.- Luís Mira, Ohmsor. Fire safety.- Luís Mira, Ohmsor. Mechanical installations.- Guilherme Carrilho da Graça, Pedro Paredes, Natural Works. Water and sewage.- João Guimarães. Landscaping.- Leonor Cheis, NPK arquitectos paisagistas associados.
Dates
2016-2021.
Location
Grândola, Portugal.
Photography
Pedro Matos Gameiro. Matos Gameiro Arquitectos
Pedro Matos Gameiro (1970) is a Portuguese architect, born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. He graduated in Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (1995) and completed his doctorate in Universidad de Granada (2014). He is a professor at Universidade de Évora since 2004 and runs his own studio since 1998.
His work has been widely published, presented and exhibited in Portugal and abroad.
Awarded the BIGMAT Architecture Award 2017 (city and landscape), an Honorable Mention in the 2017 Valmor Award and the Award of Merit in the AZ Awards 2019. His practice has been selected in various ocasions for international awards, being finalist in the FAD Awards (2018 and 2019), the BIGMAT Architecture Award (2019), the AZ Awards (2019), the SECIL Awards (2010), the ENOR Awards (2017) and the HIŠE Awards (2017). He was also member of the national representation at the XI BIAU (2019).
Member of the jury panel of the FAD Awards 2021.
His work has been widely published, presented and exhibited in Portugal and abroad.
Awarded the BIGMAT Architecture Award 2017 (city and landscape), an Honorable Mention in the 2017 Valmor Award and the Award of Merit in the AZ Awards 2019. His practice has been selected in various ocasions for international awards, being finalist in the FAD Awards (2018 and 2019), the BIGMAT Architecture Award (2019), the AZ Awards (2019), the SECIL Awards (2010), the ENOR Awards (2017) and the HIŠE Awards (2017). He was also member of the national representation at the XI BIAU (2019).
Member of the jury panel of the FAD Awards 2021.
PEDRO DOMINGOS
Pedro Domingos, nació en Lisboa en 1967. Licenciado en arquitectura por la Facultad de Arquitectura de la UTL, Lisboa en 1992. Colaboró con exclusividad con el arquitecto João Luís Carrilho da Graça, entre 1988 y 1997.
Constituyó la asociación con Inês Lobo, entre 1997 y 2002, donde desarrolló varios concursos, proyectos y obras. Enseñó en la Universidad de Lusíada, entre el 1999 y 2007 y en la Universidad de Évora, entre el 2006 y el 2012. Desde 1997 su trabajo se publica y es representado en diversas exposiciones nacionales e internacionales. Actualmente tiene su estudio propio desde 2002.
Ha sido nombrado y distinguido en varios jurados y premios: Finalista del Prémio Mies Van Der Rohe en 2017, Finalista del FAD de Arquitectura en 2016, Premio Nacional de Rehabilitación Urbana en 2016, Prémio FAD de Arquitectura en 2013.
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