Braamcamp Freire Secondary School, Lisbon, Portugal

all images courtesy of CVDB Architects

Watch the Video of 5 Architectural Works

Portugal-based CVDB Architects creates new architecture film series that catch some unforeseen details after the building completed. All the film series focus on the specific architectural details that someone can not detect easily, which is flowing softly through the movie. This project can be tackled as a new investigation / exploration of architectural space that gives some major clues about the interior life of the building and space quality - and sometimes they can not be perceptible in the images of the building. 

Braamcamp Freire Secondary School, Lisbon, Portugal

In this video, there 5 architectural works that are walked through the film, including Braamcamp Freire Secondary School, Lisbon, Portugal,- Arraiolos Tapestry Museum, Arraiolos, Portugal- Jarego House, Cartaxo, Portugal- Elderly Day Care and Residential Centre?, Oeiras, Portugal, and Cartaxo Cultural Centre, Cartaxo, Portugal. The route is organized by several subjects that concern and guide the way that CVDB works in the past years, such as place, public space and transition space, as well as visual continuity and materiality. Thus, in this video, Building Pictures uses these topics to establish the link between all the spaces. You can also see some images from the buildings that screened in the movie.

Cartaxo Cultural Centre, Cartaxo, Portugal

CVDB Arquitectos is a studio created in 1999 by Cristina Verissimo and Diogo Burnay; since then, they’ve been exploring new contemporary ways of making architecture, looking at the space as part of a physical, social and cultural context. This studio has won several awards with works that are included in this video, such as:  Braamcamp Freire Secondary School which has won recently the AR School Awards, the Education Wan Awards in 2013 and the Education Building of the Year in 2014 and Elderly Day Care and Residential Centre that has won the 2008 IHRU Construction Award.

Cartaxo Cultural Centre, Cartaxo, Portugal

Cartaxo Cultural Centre, Cartaxo, Portugal

Braamcamp Freire Secondary School, Lisbon, Portugal

Braamcamp Freire Secondary School, Lisbon, Portugal

Cartaxo Cultural Centre, Cartaxo, Portugal

Arraiolos Tapestry Museum, Arraiolos, Portugal

Arraiolos Tapestry Museum, Arraiolos, Portugal

Arraiolos Tapestry Museum, Arraiolos, Portugal

Day Care and Elderly Residential Centre, Oeiras, Portugal

Day Care and Elderly Residential Centre, Oeiras, Portugal

Cartaxo Cultural Centre, Cartaxo, Portugal

Braamcamp Freire Secondary School, Lisbon, Portugal

Arraiolos Tapestry Museum, Arraiolos, Portugal

Project Facts

Direction & Production: Building Pictures

Photo Direction: Building Pictures

Post-production: Building Pictures

Music: creative commons - Chris Zabriskie - Air Hockey Saloon; Yansr CCC - Stealing Orchestra Kao Ryao - Refugio; Zen nas Runas da Antiga Fabrica de Robots; Ian Alex Mac - Bethany 2015 |5 ’20" | 16:9

Project:

Braamcamp Freire Secondary School

Arraiolos Tapestry Museum

Jarego House

Elderly Day Care and Residential Centre

Cartaxo Cultural Centre

Architects: CVDB Arquitectos

Location: Portugal

Year: 2015

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