João de Barros School

Corroios, Seixal, Portugal

2009 - 2024

Date
2009

Construction Date
On Going

Area
Implantation Area: 21133 Sqm
Construction Area: 5501 Sqm

Team
José Martinez | Miguel Beleza | Nelson Augusto | João Graça | David Cachucho | Marco Jerónimo 

Photography
AC Arquitectos

Description 
Transforming a dispersed school, consisting of several separated buildings, into a single building that, following the logics and circulation axes created inside, extends across the terrain creating courtyards, open spaces, recesses and galleries.

An immense, solid, brick-colored building, contrasting with the surrounding green areas, designed in a apparently natural way and distributed throughout the semi-enclosed courtyards that carve out the volume, characterized by distint purposes according to the spaces that surround them.