Role: Lead architect at EDP
Function: Observation and Control Building
Location: Régua, Portugal
Year: 2022
Area: 29m2
Developer: EDP Energias de Portugal
EDP project team: Pedro Geraldes (architecture), Maria Eugénia Resende (coordination), Cristina Sarmento (coordination), Marco Fernandes (structures), Pedro Vieira Soares (electric eng.), Miguel Roque (mechanical eng.), Adriano Soares (hydraulics), Tiago Ferreira (safety)
Contractor: Calado & Duarte
Photos (concluded work): Paulo Alexandre Coelho
“The existing building is tomorrow’s new building material.” Anne Lacaton
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Original condition
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