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PROMONTORIO . photos: © Fernando Guerra | FG + SG . + archdaily

Located in the Municipality of Moita, 40 km south of Lisbon, the Santa Rafaela Maria Foundation is a charity established in 1992 to oversee and develop social projects with families and children. With a focus on prevention of school drop-out, it daily assists approximately 70 children and teenagers with learning impairments, mostly coming from destitute families and dysfunctional environments. In addition, it assists social welfare with child protection and monitoring, economic funding to families in vulnerable situations, and parental training, in addition to emigrants’ integration. Continue reading PROMONTORIO

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Quinta da Baldaya is a large urban void on the south side of Estrada de Benfica, in Lisbon, whose project attempts to sew its disconnected and disqualified surroundings by creating a large affordable housing programme with ground-floor retail, a small office building and artists’ studios. Continue reading Promontorio

PROMONTORIO . Joao Cravo

The house is located in the Southwest of Alentejo, deep in the Grandola hills. The gently undulating topography contrasts with the harsh dryness of the landscape and its bare vegetation of cork and holm oaks with sparse bushes creeping from the calcareous soil. Continue reading PROMONTORIO . Cravo

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The project is Located in Lisbon’s affluent district of Restelo on a plot in Avenida das Descobertas, nearby the new Embassy of Egypt. This wide avenue is typologically characterized by a string of large stand-alone villas many of which are occupied by diplomatic representations. Following these precepts, the building is set as a kind of Palladian villa; a semi-symmetrical front-facing structure, subtly evoking a combination of both Cairo’s Heliopolis district, with its Art Deco and modernist villas, as well as Lisbon’s own Portuguese “suave” modernism. In fact, the compactness yielding from the municipality’s regulatory constraints, was ultimately an interesting point of departure for the concept, by generating an essentially monolithic volume vertically counterpoised from the outside by a series of fluted panels. Following a classical composition system, these flutes are interrupted at specific positions to form windows, or releasing their edges into becoming columns that form pergolas and balconies to provide shading areas. Continue reading PROMONTORIO

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The design comprises the façade renovation of a 1980s disqualified residential building that since inception was occupied as a bank office building. This corner of Lisbon is particularly notable in the city from a cultural perspective. Not only does the visible of the site grant it an iconic character per se, but the fact as well that its opposite corner buildings of Franjinhas and Castil —respectively designed by Francisco Conceição Silva and Teotónio Pereira/ Braula Reis and listed as “monuments of public interest”— were highly relevant to the debate and history of modern architecture in Portugal. Continue reading Promontorio