Cascais | Conservatorio de Musica | ARX Portugal

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Opening just a few weeks ago, the new home of the Cascais Music Conservatory is within a remodeled single-family residence from the early 20th century. Designed by the Portuguese architecture firm ARX, the conservatory’s classes will take place in new spaces built within the existing house - smaller rooms for teaching + practice, which also allowed the design to ‘respond to the decisive acoustic constraints’.

For performances, ARX have created an addition on the back-side of the building. The new space is an extension of the stone foundation of the original building, pushing outwards towards an open palm-tree field out back. The geometry of this new space - the roof of which serves as a balcony overlooking the garden - responds to the site, creating visual connections and ‘framing’ the surrounding environment - creating what ARX describes as an ‘intense relation’ with the garden.

Officially inaugurated in April 14th, 2008, the new building of the Cascais Music Conservatory, also headquarters of the Cascais and Oeiras Orchestra, has opened its doors to the public.The architecture project, designed by ARX Portugal (Nuno Mateus/José Mateus), won first place in the competition held in 2003 by the City Council of Cascais.
It dealt with a complex recovery of the building dated from last century, where the different “times” of its existence, as well as its ownership, are put in evidence, in a context strongly shaped by foreign, cultural and aesthetic, references.

First called ‘Chalet Madalena’, and later ‘Pensão Boaventura’, this building welcomed, especially between 1938 and 1946, guests from almost 30 nationalities, great part of it refugees from World War II. Today, that crossing of different countries continues, this time in an array of musicians, teachers and students from several nationalities, giving thus a new impulse to this magnificent School of music.


More information available at www.arx.pt
In: “projects”-”Institutional” - “Chamber Orchestra of Cascais”.
Quoted text courtesy of ARX.
Photos by Fernando Guerra of FG + SG - Fotografia de Arquitectura.

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ARX : Cascais Music Conservatory



Opening just a few weeks ago, the new home of the Cascais Music Conservatory is within a remodeled single-family residence from the early 20th century. Designed by the Portuguese architecture firm ARX, the conservatory’s classes will take place in new spaces built within the existing house - smaller rooms for teaching + practice, which also allowed the design to ‘respond to the decisive acoustic constraints’.



For performances, ARX have created an addition on the back-side of the building. The new space is an extension of the stone foundation of the original building, pushing outwards towards an open palm-tree field out back. The geometry of this new space - the roof of which serves as a balcony overlooking the garden - responds to the site, creating visual connections and ‘framing’ the surrounding environment - creating what ARX describes as an ‘intense relation’ with the garden.

Officially inaugurated in April 14th, 2008, the new building of the Cascais Music Conservatory, also headquarters of the Cascais and Oeiras Orchestra, has opened its doors to the public.The architecture project, designed by ARX Portugal (Nuno Mateus/José Mateus), won first place in the competition held in 2003 by the City Council of Cascais.

It dealt with a complex recovery of the building dated from last century, where the different “times” of its existence, as well as its ownership, are put in evidence, in a context strongly shaped by foreign, cultural and aesthetic, references.

First called ‘Chalet Madalena’, and later ‘Pensão Boaventura’, this building welcomed, especially between 1938 and 1946, guests from almost 30 nationalities, great part of it refugees from World War II. Today, that crossing of different countries continues, this time in an array of musicians, teachers and students from several nationalities, giving thus a new impulse to this magnificent School of music.





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Chamber Orchestra of Cascais







I posted about a previous project by ARX... so I'm not surprised that I really like this recent project by the Lisbon based firm. The design is the result of Cascais competition and has recently opened to the public. If you've been to this site before, then you know that I've got a real appreciation for modern additions to older structures. This project is quite sensitive to the original building, just barely engaging it physically while keeping a similar palette of colors and textures. By doing this, instead of flagrantly disregarding the original intent, ARX manages to celebrate both the new and the old.

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The Cascais Music Conservatory opens

Officially inaugurated in April 14th, 2008, the new building of the Cascais Music Conservatory, also headquarters of the Cascais and Oeiras Orchestra, has opened its doors to the public.The architecture project, designed by ARX Portugal (Nuno Mateus/José Mateus), won first place in the competition held in 2003 by the City Council of Cascais. It dealt with a complex recovery of the building dated from last century, where the different "times" of its existence, as well as its ownership, are put in evidence, in a context strongly shaped by foreign, cultural and aesthetic, references.
First called 'Chalet Madalena', and later 'Pensão Boaventura', this building welcomed, especially between 1938 and 1946, guests from almost 30 nationalities, many refugees from World War II. Today, that crossing of different countries continues, this time in an array of musicians, teachers and students from several nationalities, giving a new impulse to this School.
The City of Cascais and Oeiras Music School and Chamber Orchestra headquarters stays at the old building of the Boaventura boarding house, located at downtown Monte Estoril,municipality of Cascais. It is a building from the beginning of the 20th century, intended for a single-family residence, known as "Chalet Madalena". The house fills almost the totality of the centre of the lot, which came to extend south with the purchase of the next land-lot, which in its turn was only occupied by a magnificent palm-tree field.
It was decided to preserve the existing house and its relations to the land, not so much because of its architectonical traits, which are modest, but because it obeys a characteristic typology of the Estoril area, whose specimens are being demolished and replaced by big apartment or office buildings filling the lots without leaving any room for garden areas and blocking visual interaction.
The interior of the house was totally rebuilt, respecting the cruciform typology of the original house's spatial distribution, but adapted to the actual necessities. The majority of the rooms of the new programme is small and designed for the teaching of music, individually or in small groups.
A new multi-use room is built of larger proportions and is destined for rehearsals and orchestra concerts. It was made by simply extending the stone foundations of the original house to the palm-tree field. Its geometry matches the response to the visual circumstances of the surroundings by framing the environment in an intense relation with the garden. It also secures the specific acoustic demands and allows, at the side of the lot, for the passage of a new street accessing the parking area.
The roof is now an outside balcony for leisure, a natural extension of the interior space of the old chalet, articulated with the garden.

Fonte: WorldArchitectureNews

[JAG]

Mais info... no Arquitectura.pt: http://arquitectura.pt/forum/f10/cascais-conservatorio-de-musica-arx-10241.html

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Um projecto interessante. Num contexto geral acho bonito.

Já agora fica onde mesmo?

[lllARKlll]

Não existe por aí ninguém em Cascais disposto a tirar mais fotos?

[JAG]

Isso é que era bom... ^^ Mas eu nem sei onde é que isso fica...

[r.guerreiro]

tive a opurtunidade de visitar o edificio (ainda antes da sua conclusão) numa visita guiada pelo arq. nuno mateus, achei o edificio mt interessante e gostei mt da maneira como o edificio foi reabilitado e a maneira como o espaço foi utilizado. tbm a abordagem ao espaço envolvente foi mt interessante…

[lllARKlll]

Eu acho que já tinha visto este projecto nas últimas reportagens do Fernando Guerra...