FACOL Offices in Guimaraes by Ana Coelho, Serzedelo, Portuguese Architecture Photography
FACOL Offices in Guimaraes
Modern Serzedelo Commercial Building Portugal ? design by Ana Coelho Arq., Lda
26 July 2019
FACOL industrial building, Guimaraes
Architects: Ana Coelho Arq., Lda
Location: Serzedelo, Guimarães, Portugal
Ampliação de Unidade Industrial

FACOL Offices Guimaraes
English text (scroll down for Portuguese):
The project for the FACOL industrial building started with the rehabilitation of an abandoned and obsolete pavilion, providing it with the proper work conditions for a textile dyeing facility.

The second phase of the project consisted in the addition of a new volume to the already existent factory, creating a new building where all the administrative functions would take place.
The new office building was implanted on the south face of the existent volume, detached from it and separated by a vertical garden, which isolates any disturbance noise prevenient from the factory facilities.

The new volume is partially elevated from the ground level. One of its? extremities is supported by a natural garden slope, whereas the other one is suspended, thus allowing to create an outdoors parking lot under the building.

The interior distribution of space is organized after a central entry hall, which also connects to the factory volume (horizontally) and the ground level (vertically). The reception area connects with a corridor with openings to the vertical garden,...