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Arada Office Building in Ovar, Portugal
Northern Portuguese Modern Work Place Project design by Nelson Resende Architect
10 Oct 2018
Design: Nelson Resende, Architect
Location: Arada, Ovar, Portugal
Arada Office Building
Photos by João Morgado
Arada Office Building, Portugal
The building results from the need to create two offices, with possible autonomous use, but allowing an internal connection, considering the possible merging of the two spaces.
The construction is located on level ground, at a height of about 1.00 m above the height of the street, and is located in an environment of dispersed buildings with a strong presence of agricultural activity.
The choice of site is therefore not thoughtless.
Although the program is of a commercial nature, the need for decontamination, back to the essence, a kind of purity that allows, without initial affections, to think, conceive and produce new spaces, conditioned this choice that, unlike most service spaces, is not located in a more urbanized center.
There is, therefore, a conscious detachment that compensates for the increasingly frenetic pace at which things have to be thought and produced.
The building is the result of the juxtaposition of a series of pure, little-tamed volumes, linked by necessity, but assuming its own identity.
The result seeks, however, to be more than a sum, an idea of formulation that exposes without fear the crudeness of the essence as a possible way, the honesty of the simple forms. These are exposed without filters, in a game that emphasizes the dynamism, by the different rotation of the volumes, its different altimetry and solar exposition.
This allows the creation of an object of easy apprehension and simultaneously of insinuated complexity, by the games of light/shadow. These games cause by the apparent ambiguity of how it is shown, exposed in the volumetric formulation but reserved in the functional connection that establishes, filtered, with the surroundings.
The natural surroundings are a permanent mutation scenario, resulting from the agricultural cycles, the seasons, the climatic conditions of each season and the success of the tilth that proliferate.
The building, which is immutable, is shaping much more slowly and, at the most, it can accuse the skates themselves of it own exposure to the weather conditions that, along with the longevity it as, influence its appearance.
Moreover, this almost immutability of the building before an environment at least cyclically changeable exposes the building in ways that are not controlled – the forms gain an apparent importance before a nature that is transfigured when, year after year, they appear with this constancy.
The apparent lightness of the gesture is contrary to the resistance of the work in time, which in itself also shows a certain tension – the work nevertheless seems to have resulted from a sudden act, little reflected, when in fact, this simplicity results from a successive detachment of artifacts used more commonly in other circumstances, and is therefore the result of a long process of maturation and reflection.
Arada Office Building, Ovar – Building Informatio
Address: Rua da Nogueira, Arada, Ovar
Project date: 2016
Construction date: 2013/20142017
Client: private
Architecture: Nelson Resende, Architect
Exterior design: Nelson Resende, Architect
Structures: Sandra Leite, Engenheira Civil
Construction: several companies
Construction área: 120.00 sqm
Levels: 1 level
Photography: João Morgado, Fotografia de Arquitectura
Arada Office Building in Ovar, Portugal images / information from Joao Morgado / Nelson Resende, Architect
Location: Rua da Nogueira, Arada, Ovar, Portugal, southwestern Europe
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