oasrs expansion

We devise this foyer as a multi-purposed space, serving the headquarters and the new coffee-shop, enabling informal events and outdoor conferences, and showcasing the Association’s activities to the public

The pre-existing façade is kept and integrated into a new architectural entity; through its openings one reaches a new covered foyer connecting the original headquarters, the new expansion and the backstreet

The headquarters of the Association of Portuguese Architects, situated along the riverbank in Lisbon, is a 1990’s reuse of a 19th century public bath building. The embankment is strongly imbued with an early industrial, harbour-like atmosphere. Therein, the headquarters stand out with its contrast of classicism and the proud scenography of the 1990’s intervention.

oitoo’s competition proposal for the new expansion for the Architects Association aims to highlight the main building as the protagonist of the new ensemble. It extends the plan’s central axis towards the new addition in a continuous sequence of spaces engaging with the public realm, proposing an alternative entrance.

The pre-existing façade is kept and integrated into a new architectural entity; through its openings one reaches a new covered foyer connecting the original headquarters, the new expansion and the backstreet.

We devise this foyer as a multi-purposed space, serving the headquarters and the new coffee-shop, enabling informal events and outdoor conferences, and showcasing the Association’s activities to the public. In the first floor a new terracotta roof covers the seminar rooms and tries to tie together the heterogeneous and eclectic ensemble into a new entity.