Secondary School Da Amora / Bak Gordon

Architects: Ricardo Bak Gordon
Location: Amora, Portugal
Architect In Charge: Ricardo Bak Gordon
Year: 2010
Photographs: FG+SG- Fernando Guerra

Collaborators: Luís Pedro Pinto, Nuno Velhinho, Pedro Serrazina, Sónia Silva, Vera Higino
Contractor: Opway
Landscape Architecture: F&C
Foundations, Structures And Hydraulics: Betar
Electrics, Telecommunications, Security, Acoustics And Mechanics: Afaconsult
Client: Parque Escolar EPE
Areas: 7205m2 construction area + 4775m2 refurbishment

From the architect. Generally in our projects to modernize schools we have designed a new building for additional activities. The only one where we decided not to do this is in Amora. There we took the central building and identified empty areas where a library and an auditorium could be built, complementing the existing structure.

On the upper floor, administrative areas and teachers’ departments could be installed. Also the project adjusts and transforms the existing areas and we worked to organize the school’s external spaces.

This is reinforced by a covered walkway, a kind of ring around the site that links the various pavilions.