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Aires Mateus . photos: © Tim Van de Velde

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The Musée des Augustins overlaps the Convent des Augustins throughout history. The charm of the museum lies in this symbiosis where the value of the art works and the museographic itinerary are inseparable from the spatial context of the convent. The new entrance of the museum will also be the new door of the convent: it should clearly open to the city and at the same time turn to the cloister with serenity, respecting the spatial values of the convent.

The new composition occupies the old southern wing of the cloister, recovering the dimension of the disappeared Chapelle de l’Ecce homo. It aims to restore the ancient matter and distance, currently too fragile, between the convent and the city. This volume brings back thickness to the south wing of the convent and reopens its connections, according to the original composition of the cloister. Continue reading Aires Mateus

Manuel Aires Mateus . + Lisbon 8

Renovation in Cais do Sodré, an old building from the 40’s by Adelino Alves Nunes. Continue reading Aires Mateus

Aires Mateus . photos: © João Guimarães

The house is located on a ridge above the Lisbon estuary. It faces the Estrela Basilica on one side, and the river on the other. The house, with an extensive brief, requires the use of two circuits: one interior and the other exterior, alternating in order to facilitate the independence of the parents’ and their children’s lives. The house revives the form of a traditional streetfront house, in this case entirely in face concrete, both inside and outside. Thus, it opens up via the relationship between its constituent spaces. Continue reading Aires Mateus