2nd prize Montesinho Natural Park Headquarters
e-studio won the 2nd prize in the competition to design the headquarters of the Montesinho Natural Park.
This project started as the answer for the following question:
How to place a public building in a suburb, assuming its urbanity and enhancing its relationship with the natural environment?
A result of the compromise between an urban role, assuring continuity, and the transition to a natural space, the building occupies all the site’s perimeter, enclosing a courtyard in its interior.
The Montesinho Natural Park headquarters building assumes its role as a public landmark and an architectural reference, like the New Municipal Theater, Braganza’s Cultural Centre or the future Contemporary Art Museum. The new interior and exterior public spaces created by it will provide a place for learning and leisure with a strong relationship with its natural surroundings and in the distance with the old city skyline.
The project was approached in terms of its ecological sustainability, minimizing its impact in the environment both in terms of active and passive strategies, itself the demonstration of environmental education.
Energy consumption is decreased in 200MWh/year, avoiding 12,7 tons of CO2 to be released in the atmosphere.
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