Cascais Young Store

{"headings":["Inside Out","(Re)Connecting"," ","Palimpsest"],"paragraphs":["The existing building, from 1899, was modestly inspired by models that spread throughout Europe, of the mountain chalet, with pronounced roofs, referring to an eighteenth-century romanticism, which fit the very concept of a summer house. In 1941 it's enlarged and altered, decorative elements are introduced and overlaid on the facade, strongly influenced by the Art Deco style. It is from this overlapping memories that we propose a new 2-storey building that rises from the existing façades and turns it inside out. The existing building becomes a patio and the surrounding garden becomes the new building. The pronounced roofs of this new coverage are projected with the intention of resolving the encounter with the surrounding environment.","This open foyer resolves the informal entrance of the building, and presents itself as a space available for multiple use, without constraints, socially inclusive and programmatically open. We propose a building that stands out for its sculptural and contemporary character, both in terms of its materiality and its size. It was felt necessary to redesign the Square, a unitary space, with the creation of a general pavement with clear formal, chromatic and material coherence, which can provide the public space with a continuity that does not exist today, and articulate the entrance of the building with a new link between the bus stops to the north and the trainstation to the south.","From this connection and around this Foyer, all public areas of the program are developed at ground floor level. Nuclear spaces such as the small auditorium, Cafeteria and the Cascais Jovem Shop, benefit from a direct relationship with the exterior. In the first floor all the offices and its enclosures are illuminated by courtyards, terraces and the spans of the facade to be maintained. The intervention will be limited to a reduced palette of materials and colors, respecting the integrity and original design, in order to allow and enhance a homogeneous understanding of the whole, sending to the light a role that enhances its environment. Contrary to the idea of crystallization of the ruin, it is proposed a symbiosis, an overlapping of a new time, that of a contemporaneity that appropriates and dialogues with existing scars and past memories."]}