What was once a civil courtroom now unfolds as a place to dwell. The former institutional structure has been reconfigured into 16 long-stay residential units, transforming civic rigidity into domestic spatiality through a position of critical reuse and architectural editing.
Project name
Vila Catarina Apartments
Architecture firm
MASSLAB
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues
Design team
Fábio Teixeira Ferreira; Pedro Machado; Marta Vaz
Environmental & MEP engineering
Structural engineer
NCREP
Typology
Residential › Apartment
MASSLAB wins competition by giving a new life to Wastewater Treatment Plant with a transforming 6.800 m² roof platform with high recreational value integrated with the landscape. At the cutting edge of architecture, landscaping, and engineering, the project by MASSLAB architecture office for the new roof of Bragança's Water Treatment Plant will all...
Project name
ETAR de Bragança
Architecture firm
MASSLAB
Location
Bragança, Portugal
Principal architect
Diogo Sousa Rocha, Duarte Ramalho Fontes, Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues
Design team
Diogo Parente Mina, Amr Ragaei, Francesco Podda, Sedef Cicekdiken
Collaborators
Noraqua (Engineering), Fusão + Mino (3D Images)
Client
Câmara Municipal de Bragança
Status
Competition. 1st prize
Typology
Infrastructure, Industrial Architecture
MASSLAB + AFRY Ark Studio won the Finnish Train Factory Mixed-Use Competition with the aim of developing a new urban landmark for the Pasila machine shop area in Helsinki. The proposal was selected from among five entries in an international competition that took place in two separate selection phases, hosted by the Train Factory Group and Helsinki...
Project name
A ROOF FOR HELSINKI – Train Factory Competition
Architecture firm
MASSLAB
Location
Pasila, Helsinki, Finland
Principal architect
Diogo Sousa Rocha, Duarte Ramalho Fontes, Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues
Collaborators
Engineering (With Link Of The Company): AFRY
Client
Train Factory Oy + Helsinki Municipality
Typology
TYpology Mixed-Use + Urban Design, Hotel, Office and Retail
