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Carvalho . Vilhena

Ribeira 11 . Lisbon

© Nuno Goucha Gaspar

Ricardo Carvalho Arquitectos & Associados . Joana Vilhena

The building is placed in the landfill of Boavista in Lisbon, an infrastructural operation of the late 19th century. The industrial architecture in which it resulted its an architecture of pragmatism. The Ribeira 11 building had along the 20th century several uses connected to industry and to services. It is an eclectic building, composed by parts and its main characteristics it is its proposition of a long and narrow piece, in the urban morphology of the landfill. Continue reading Carvalho . Vilhena

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RCJV Arquitectos

Lima de Freitas School Renovation . Setúbal

Ricardo Carvalho + Joana Vilhena Arquitectos . photos: © Nuno Gaspar / RCJV Arquitectos . + archdaily

The renovation and expansion of Lima de Freitas School, in Setúbal, is based on a strategy of appreciation of architecture and landscape on the eastern edge of Arrábida Natural Park. We sought to preserve the rainforest that works today as the unpredictability of the interior space of the building, constructed only in the spaces where it was not necessary to fell trees. Continue reading RCJV Arquitectos