In a protected area, classified as Natura 2000 Network, the intervention looks to organize the functional program transforming the three existing buildings in order to allow the biggest area for the requested program, with the lesser occupation of the ground.
The buildings act as elements of support to a structure that is raised above ground and that keeps itself suspended, organizing a set of patios and pathways between the several functional parts, allowing to preserve the ground intact and permeable.
The construction is raised a meter above the highest quota of the ground, defining private patios around the residence building and designing an entrance, on the opposite side of the 55 x 27,5 meters rectangle, where the ground becomes lower.
The center of the
set is marked by a bigger patio, which organizes the buildings, the covered
exterior spaces and the pathways of the station around it.
At ground level, the suspended plans fit long horizontal views of the surrounding
landscape.
Beucause of it’s extreme isolation, the station as to remain self-suficient
in terms of energy and water supplies, that is possible due to the photovoltaic
panels set in the roofs, and by a deposit that stores the rainwater.
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TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
NAME AND SITE OF THE PROJECT : EBG – Estação Biológica do Garducho(Garducho Biological Center) Herdade dos Guizos, 7240 Mourão
ARCHITECT: VENTURA TRINDADE, architects/ João Maria Trindade
DESIGN TEAM: Chiara Ternullo, Nuno Marcos, André Monteiro Rosa, Adelaide Neves, Lourenço van Innis, Filipe Carvalho, Susana Medeiros, Jorge Vicente, Liliana César Rodrigues, Filipe Nunes, Rita Figueiredo, Nélson Rodriguess
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING : PRPC – engineers (structure, hydraulic and coordination of infrastucure) Paulo Cardoso, Pedro Romano with Hugo Veríssimo, Carlos Certal
TECHNICAL ENERGY: João Mira, Rui Batista
ARTISTIC
INTERVENTION: Fernanda Fragateiro
With
Filipe Meireles, José Fragateiro, Patrícia Cativo
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT: CONSTRUÇÕES MONSARAZ, LDA. Virgílio Valadas
CLIENT: CEAI, CENTRO DE ESTUDO DA AVIFAUNA IBÈRICA, Carla Janeiro - Tiago Ferro
PHOTOGRAPHER: André Carvalho/ José Manuel Silva
BUILT AREA: 545 m2 (gross)
COST: 675.000 EUROS
DESIGN PHASE (BEGINNING AND ENDING MONTH, YEAR): March’06 – Jun’07
CONSTRUCTION PHASE (BEGINNING AND ENDING MONTH, YEAR): Set’08 – Dez’09
MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING FROM GROUND LEVEL: 6,5 m
MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES OF THE SITE : -5 to +50 ºC
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[2009-12-02] |
| photo by André Carvalho - José Manuel Silva
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EBG - GARDUCHO BIOLOGICAL STATION, MOURÃO
