HAUTEVILLE PREFAB OFFICES by Promontorio Arquitectos

Hello Again,

Keeping in my "portuguese posting day" I am here presenting another project by Promontorio arquitectos that is interesting from the conception point of view (I have not been able to find any plans, only the renders though.

This time is also an office building but the situation is quite interesting and worth to be analyzed. The site is Angola, one of the countries experiencing the fastest economic growth in Africa. Many international companies ares establishing offices and HQ requiring fast construction and effective use of the space.
This project is placed in a remote area of Angola and the client required quick assemblage and standard quality offices inside. Promontorio proposes a "system is based on a metallic module off from the ground, with a maximum height of three storeys, that can be installed in sets creating smaller office space units, that, –notwithstanding its prefabricated character–, still offers users the sophisticated atmosphere of a

high-end corporate office". In this same building we find also a shaft module with the infrststructure and vertical circulations. So with one module and exploring all its capacities the architects are able to create an office building with prefab steel elements that are assembled on site.

Xerox Building Head Quarters in Lisbon

Hello everybody! Today I present you a building that I find quite interesting and appealing from the construction point of view (more than the looks). The Xerox HQ was designed a few years ago, completed in 2001 was one of the first buildings to use prefabricated concrete elements in the country in a quite successful way. These elements provide to the architect the modulation both of the interior space and the façade. The structure follows a pre-fabricated concrete system (heavy weight tectonics) in where the light and fragile modules of windows (construction module developed also by the office) are placed. The building façade transmit sincerity on the way the prefabricated structural elements are used and these ones are the ones that give the internal coherence to the façade. The building seen from the outside its a game of modulation of pre-fabicated elements organized with coherence and with a neat result as we see both in plan and images.