High school in Vila Real (1st Place)
CLEM Architects International, known as 3Faces, won the architectural competition to elaborate the project of requalification and modernization of the high school S. Pedro located in Vila Real in Portugal, with a total of 1200 students, the building had a poor structure and in need of a rational intervention, with cost control but differentiating and that put the students and their path first.
CLEM presented a program that provides quality and comfort to students, performing a demolition of the entire social area of students, created a modern and comfortable complex that houses in the same place the entire social area (restaurant and bar), new auditoriums and administrative areas and new areas of looker rooms and sports fields. In the old classroom building, the requalification is profound giving new life to the building of the 60s, Work estimated at 5 million euros will be a milestone in the city and in the people of Vila Real.
Middle and High school in Povoa de Lanhoso (1st Place)
CLEM Architects International, known as 3 Faces, won the architectural competition to elaborate the project of requalification and modernization EB 2/3 PROFESSOR GONÇALO SAMPAIO School located in Povoa de Lanhoso in Portugal, with a total of 650 students, the building had a poor and disorganized structure and in need of a rational intervention, with cost control but differentiating and that put the students and the route first.
CLEM in a pragmatic and organizational way, presented the solution that changed all the routes of access to the scattered buildings so that the entrances were facing a large covered area.
As a way to expand the sparse area of existing covered areas, a new and central covered area was created based on columns that shadowed living areas and small amphitheaters of conviviality between students in these exterior living areas.
"With an architectural allusion of this shading slab to teaching, in the point of view that teaching is rigorous, the slab is also in geometric terms with "elementary" angles (90º) , in antithesis to this form, as an allusion to the student and his cognitive development to the logo of learning, in which with more or less difficulty acquires the teachings, that sometimes not everyone in a linear and straight route, the shape of the circulation slab, presents a more irregular, more organic shape, with various altimetry, in which in its course involves and embraces the large covered area, as the student wraps and embraces the teachings between various stages and blocks (buildings) results in a golden route that transports the student to each entrance of the class building and to the library in the main building.".
A project full of concept that was caressed by students, teachers and jury.
High School in Mondim de Basto (1st Place)
CLEM Architects International, known as 3Faces, won the architectural competition to elaborate the project of requalification and modernization of the Middle and High School of Mondim de Basto, with a total of 600 students, the building had a deficient and disorganized structure with various pathologies and in need of a rational intervention, with cost control but differentiating and that put the students and the route first.
CLEM presented a proposal that gave color and life to a school was colorless for 40 years, the base of the school was maintained but totally retreated and reorganized internally and was created a new building that unifies the scattered buildings, with elements inspired by a painting of three-dimensional Mondrian, gives color and life , joy and new tools for the student to progress and have better school achievement.