Places
Teodósio Dias
Tours
Sun 15h-16h30, Architect Teresa Cavadas / Sun 16h30-18h, Architect Nuno Graça Moura
Maximum 15 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography not allowed
Description
Even though it is a parallelepiped volume with a reinforced concrete skeleton structure, rigorously modular, Pereira da Costa proposes different plans for each of the floors, working the mixed program in a sectional way with the juxtaposition of commerce (with a retreated ground floor), T2 (on the 1st floor) and a duplex T4 (on the 2nd and 3rd floors), with individual access to the roof, with a sea view. This module, repeated nine times, draws a block with a portico on the ground floor that prolongs public space, filters the relation between inside/outside through the curtain of columns, and evokes the buildings on pilotis of the modern city. The accesses to the houses are appendixes to the building and start at the galleries in the opposite elevation, associated to a central annex volume that integrates the scale that develops from the main atrium, the space occupied by the central span of the building (with an uneven number of modules), in this case replacing the ground floor shop. At Cristo Rei, from the square to the houses, a sensitive promenade produces the metamorphosis of scales.
Location
Praça D. Afonso V, 55
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Bus: STCP - 202, 203, 207, 504