Houses for eldery people in Alcácer do Sal

Residências assistidas em Alcácer do Sal

Houses for eldery people in Alcácer do Sal
Spolupráce:Giacomo Brenna, Paola Marini, Anna Bacchetta, Miguel Pereira
Address: Olival do Coronel, Alcácer do Sal, Portugal
Investor:Santa Casa da Misericordia de Alcácer do Sal
Project:2006-07
Completion:2018-10
Area:3640 m2
Built Up Area:1560 m2


The project is based on a attentive reading of the life of a very specific kind of community, a sort of a micro-society with its own rules.
It is a program, somewhere in between a hotel and a hospital, that seeks to comprehend and reinterpret the combination social/private, answering to the needs of a social life, and at the same time of solitude.
Independents unities aggregate into a unique body, whose design is expressive and clear.
The reduct mobility of those who will live in the building suggests that any displacement should be an emotive and variable experience.The distance between the independent units is measured and drawn to turn the idea of path into life, and its time into form.
The building, designed path, is a wall that naturally rises from the topography: it limits and defines the open space, organizing the entire plot.
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