Madan Parque by Samuel Torres de Carvalho and Pedro Palmero Cabezas

Catherine Warmann | 21 April 2010 7 comments

Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of an office building for technology companies in Almada, Portugal, by architects Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho and Pedro Palmero Cabezas.

Called Madan Parque, the project features a central entrance hall and staircase that cut through the rectangular block and link two sides of the building.

Further windows with green frames are sheltered in recesses cut into the volume.

The information below is from the architects:

MADAN PARQUE BUILDING

The building houses an incubator for technology based companies and is located at Monte da Caparica, Almada.

The form of the building results from a process in which the built mass is moulded and subtracted in response to the irregularity of the plot and the different functional requirements.

This dissolution of the volume blurs the limit between exterior and interior, rooting the construction to the soil.

The plot has two opposite street fronts, with a difference in levels of one floor.

Connecting these street fronts a large lobby with a monumental staircase crosses the building.

This space has a somewhat public character and constitutes a place of informal encounter for the occupants.

Walking through the building, visual perspectives unfold, relating different spaces, interior and exterior, public and private, sometimes crossing different floors.

The working spaces are very different from each other in their form and relation with the outside, breaking the stereotyped idea of an office building.