Barreiro College of Technology | Portugal | ARX

The building site assigned for the School is located in the outskirts of the city of Barreiro. These are rural territories which were invaded by recent constructions intersecting green-gardens and reed plots.

Residence houses are predominant and other functions were not predicted for this area and so this neighbourhood is now just a suburb with little urban life.

The soil, however, is quite interesting: broad, softly inclined and well-related with its shape – unevenness of 13,12 feet in perimeter to north and south – having at one end a dense forest of cork and large pine trees.........more