Companies Incubator By Contemporânea in Vila Verde, Braga, Portugal

Companies Incubator By Contemporânea

Companies Incubator exterior facade

Companies Incubator exterior wall

Companies Incubator exterior windows

Overall, with just more than 2000 square meters, divided into two floors which was developed in two wings, filling such an “L”, following a strong two-way sites and have the atrium as a point of turning. One of the wings, moreover, in line with existing houses to conclude that the front with a certain consistency. The building, an initiative of the Instituto Empresarial do Minho (Minho Enterprise Institute), located in the busy and noisy street Braga (EN 101), at the beginning of the area is almost flat. North and East facing plot boundary which includes the panoramic expanse of meadows framed by dense oak forests (which borders the river Homem), with the mountains in the background Gerês. From the South, the environment is the last page of a series of private family homes which is the image of “primarily” from Road 101. We did not converge to a more collective atrium area of the whole (the secretary’s office, waiting rooms, bars, a multipurpose room), incubation reservation “” for both sides of the longitudinal corridor that divides the two parts of the building. Repeating the second floor of the atrium void, the same scheme, with a multipurpose room and catch some high double indirect light from a roof. Although some rooms face the road or soil incubation neighbor to the southwest, most of them change the window with the landscape, calm and protected by strong hands that framed. The window is then treated differently: those who face the West, is equipped with a mobile vertical blinds, tied with a metal case, glass to protect from the harsh afternoon sun, they who face the East and Southwest tend to generously shaded by overhangs, fixed, in that , and also in metals. Volume all covered with white and dark blue tiles, in a chess pattern slightly behind to trigger interesting optical effects that characterize a whole, creating a powerful and mysterious image which decodes only after a large sign. A whole, then, folded and find pasture for Gerês Mountains, the road curves to the printing and distribution of discrete personalities, inside, a simple and efficient space, tight space metric thematized by the constructive and be happy with the intentionality of light.

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