Embaixada | Guarda EMIO

Fuente: Embaixada, World Architecture

The program brief required the rehabilitation of an old water-mill nowadays in ruins. The former interior spaces were transformed into inner courtyards (similar to the present situation), while the program is conceived in an exterior ribbon wrapping the existing ruins. The program is developed in a continuous promenade, where all different activities and functions are assembled throughout the space. The formal complexity of the building is the direct result of the several deformations applied in order to make it adequate to the program, the ruins and the topography. 

Embaixada | Tomar EMIO cultural centre, Casa dos Cubos

Fuente: Embaixada, World Architecture

Fotografía: DMF
Vídeo: Embaixada, Mercês Tomaz Gomes

Embaixada it’s a collective established in 2001 with the aim to produce works capable of answering to the exquisite requisites of contemporary life by innovative ways. As an office it refuses to be limited to one type of specialization, constantly searching for new and different challenges.

Embaixada is currently constituted by seven associates graduated in Architecture (Albuquerque Goinhas, Augusto Marcelino, Cristina Mendonça, Luís Baptista, Nuno Griff, Pedro Patrício, Sofia Antunes) and counts on the regular contribution of several specialists, in the most diverse areas, in order to extend its expertise and know-how.

Casa dos Cubos

The Project is a reconversion of a former run-down infrastructure. The new program comprises two distinct areas: a public area for exhibitions, meetings and cafeteria and a private area consisting of lecture rooms and accommodation for invited artists. The design maintains the entire external perimeter construction, while its run-down interior is totally scooped out.

The new construction establishes itself as the anatomy of the existing building. A new architectural body that runs throughout the available space, de-multiplying tectonically the finite interior into a new series of places and programmatic situations. A new interior within an interior.

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