Office building by Nelson Resende. Three volumes in a new office environment
16/10/2018.
[Arada - Ovar] Portugal
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The office building is not located in a typical urban environment, the place is chosen after a reflection about the need to return to the rural to be able to think and produce new spaces and ideas. The building consists mainly of three simple volumes linked together.
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Exterior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Interior view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Night view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Night view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Night view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Night view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Night view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Night view. Office building by Nelson Resende. Photograph by João Morgado
Floor Plan. Office building by Nelson Resende. Courtesy of Nelson Resende
Roof Plan. Office building by Nelson Resende. Courtesy of Nelson Resende
East facade Plan. Office building by Nelson Resende. Courtesy of Nelson Resende
Section Plan. Office building by Nelson Resende. Courtesy of Nelson Resende
Section Plan. Office building by Nelson Resende. Courtesy of Nelson Resende
West facade Plan. Office building by Nelson Resende. Courtesy of Nelson Resende
South facade Plan. Office building by Nelson Resende. Courtesy of Nelson Resende
Section Plan. Office building by Nelson Resende. Courtesy of Nelson Resende
Section Plan. Office building by Nelson Resende. Courtesy of Nelson Resende
North facade Plan. Office building by Nelson Resende. Courtesy of Nelson Resende
The offices designed by Nelson Resende are the result of the juxtaposition of volumes whose honesty lies in the simplicity of their form. The building, in a mainly agricultural environment, remains unchanged while the surrounding scenario varies constantly, muta, depending on the time of year.
Description of the project by Nelson Resende
The building results from the need to create two offices, with possible autonomous use, but allowing an internal connection, considering the possible merging of the two spaces.
The construction is located on level ground, at a height of about 1.00 m above the height of the street, and is located in an environment of dispersed buildings with a strong presence of agricultural activity.
The choice of site is therefore not thoughtless.
Although the program is of a commercial nature, the need for decontamination, back to the essence, a kind of purity that allows, without initial affections, to think, conceive and produce new spaces, conditioned this choice that, unlike most service spaces, is not located in a more urbanized center.
There is, therefore, a conscious detachment that compensates for the increasingly frenetic pace at which things have to be thought and produced.
The building is the result of the juxtaposition of a series of pure, little-tamed volumes, linked by necessity, but assuming its own identity.
The result seeks, however, to be more than a sum, an idea of formulation that exposes without fear the crudeness of the essence as a possible way, the honesty of the simple forms, exposed without filters, in a game that emphasizes the dynamism, by the different rotation of the volumes, its different altimetry and solar exposition, allowing the creation of an object of easy apprehension and simultaneously of insinuated complexity, by the games of light/shadow that causes, by the apparent ambiguity of how it is shown, exposed in the volumetric formulation but reserved in the functional connection that establishes, filtered, with the surroundings.
The natural surroundings are a permanent mutation scenario, resulting from the agricultural cycles, the seasons, the climatic conditions of each season and the success of the tilth that proliferate.
The building, which is immutable, is shaping much more slowly and, at the most, it can accuse the skates themselves of it own exposure to the weather conditions that, along with the longevity it as, influence its appearance.
Moreover, this almost immutability of the building before an environment at least cyclically changeable exposes the building in ways that are not controlled - the forms gain an apparent importance before a nature that is transfigured when, year after year, they appear with this constancy.
The apparent lightness of the gesture is contrary to the resistance of the work in time, which in itself also shows a certain tension - the work nevertheless seems to have resulted from a sudden act, little reflected, when in fact, this simplicity results from a successive detachment of artifacts used more commonly in other circumstances, and is therefore the result of a long process of maturation and reflection.
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Architects
Nelson Resende, Architect
Exterior design
Nelson Resende, Architect
Structural engineering
Sandra Leite, Civil Engineer
Client
Private
Constructor
Several companies
Dates
Project date - 2016
Construction date - 2013/2014- 2017
Venue
Adress - Rua da Nogueira, Arada, Ovar
Area
Construction área - 120.00 m²
Nelson Resende
Nelson Joaquim Leite de Resende, architect for FAUP since 2000, has several workshops, learning different project approaches, which allows the use of several scales, programs and project phases; and plural experiences, complementary to its own individual course, which tracks since the end of the course.
Among his latest publications, exhibitions or conferences we can find.- “Últimas Reportagens”,SG + FG Architecture Photography, Single-family room at the Green Beach, 2011; “VI Expo 2010 NAAV”, 2010; or the book “‘00’09 10 Anos de Arquitectura pelo NAAV”, edition of the order of architects, 2010.
Among his latest publications, exhibitions or conferences we can find.- “Últimas Reportagens”,SG + FG Architecture Photography, Single-family room at the Green Beach, 2011; “VI Expo 2010 NAAV”, 2010; or the book “‘00’09 10 Anos de Arquitectura pelo NAAV”, edition of the order of architects, 2010.
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