Nuno Melo Sousa . photos: © Federico Farinatti
The site is a small acropolis.
The program was suitable for this “top of the hill” situation – a headquarters building for a local family business.
A complex set of different programs is to be adjusted and articulated.
A shop for motorcycle sports, navigation hardware and software development. Office space, cafeteria and living area.
A showroom for heavy machinery and equipment. A technical assistance area with loading docks.
Three storage rooms.
It all starts with an exterior gallery to connect the three cores, implying cadence and rhythm through the pillar repetition: perhaps evoking a certain monumentality before entering the void.
Two patios bring light and green to the industrial gray, opposing the expected.
An axial entrance to a lobby with two long stairs and four columns that reach a higher ceiling. A cross circulation on the second level.
Interior boxes for offices, toilets and locker-room.
Granite pavement and walls, made of local rocks, sustain the topography and create a continuous floor to visually detach the concrete mammoth.
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Name of Work in English Corcet Headquarters
Name of Work in local Language Edifício-sede Corcet
Year of design 2021
Construction – groundbreaking year 2023
Construction – completion year 2024 Construction – completion month December Client name Corcet, S.A.
Client type Private Program Industrial
Labels (Use) > Warehouse > Facilities
Intervention type New Construction
Urban fabric location type Periphery
Site area 12 325
Floor area 3 650
Cost 900€/m2
Photography © Federico Farinatti
