USP LIBRARY COMPETITION BY AND-RÉ

A library defined by a continuous vertical visual and phisical flow, achieved by the connection of floors with usable stairs.

A library without boundaries, allowing flexibility and future space adaptability. A system defined by sensitive relationship between floors.

The elements of vertical circulation assume the goal of transforming the building into an interesting fluid organism, with enhanced social dynamic and diversifying the uses and forms of library enjoyment.

Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil 
Architect: AND-RÉ + SPACEGROUP + Maria Rodrigues de Azevedo 
Project Team: Bruno André, Francisco Salgado Ré, Catarina Fernandes, Fernando Ferreira, Filipe Paixão, Maria Clara Rodrigues de Azevedo, Mariana Alves, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Silvia Acar 
Area: 3352 m2 
Year: 2013 
Promotor: library committee of the university of law at USP

NEW NATIONAL CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS BY AND-RÉ

“Competition proposal, for the New National Centre of Contemporary Arts of Moscow, presenting a cutting-edge democratic design driven concept, aiming for an engaging architecture, not only as multi cultural hub, but also as a dynamic social centre. 

A building that does not superimposes itself to the visitor, yet allows a freewill experience that goes parallel with the democratic essence of this architecture. This proposal for the NCCA represents the consolidation of this ambitious global vision, achieved through an architecture that doesn’t try to define the future, but willing to let the future - and art - define itself.

A building that reflects the environment, a transparent exterior skin that reacts with the surroundings and provokes, seduces and attracts the visitor. A plural building that is opened for the people, visually and physically. A building that reveals a glimpse of its inner organization system, but at the same time attracts the visitor to discover more.

A rational organized architecture, conscious of the existence of future unknown necessities, allowing the adaptation to programmatic flexibility in a more than ever fast changing world. The building has a first level of engagement through the exterior slick defying shape. One that not intend anonymity or discretion, but neither aims for a shallow pursue of form.

One that assumes its iconographic relevance, but is at the same time sensitive to the environment, the surroundings, the context and the program and promoter ambitions. A second level of user relation understood as a continuity of the exterior public space into the interior of the building.

A massive social space filled with natural light and allowing visual connection with the exterior. A public buffer zone created by all the void space between the closed programmatic volumes and the outer shape. A total permeable public space, allowing multi actions, encounters, exhibitions, performances or just allowing the crossing.

This public place provides the first contact between the visitor and the art, in a genuine immediate way. This is the first step in the essential building purpose that is to relate people with art. A third level of use defined by programmatic volumes. Their organization is the basis of the system.

The organization is rational and aims to offer great flexibility and plurality. The main program is therefore mainly developed on these volumes, responding to all the demands of a wide and multi-characterized program. The rational inner system, like a body, is adapted to the exterior skin, in mutual relation" AND-RÉ.

Location: Moscow, Russia 
Architect: AND-RÉ 
Project Team: Bruno André, Francisco Salgado Ré, Catarina Fernandes, Fernando Ferreira, Filipe Paixão 
Area: 46 500 m2 
Year: 2013 
Promoter: The Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation

SETÚBAL PUBLIC LIBRARY ENTRY BY AND-RÉ

The concept is developed with the purpose of controlling the external environmental conditions in order to manipulate the internal space. It is an introspective system, developed around a central courtyard, as indeed occurs in many examples in the history of architecture, serving a purpose of reflective internalization and privacy.

It is a way to focus the architecture in itself, like the act of assimilating knowledge. This space is a positive affirmation of expression of society's need to move away from an external active, stressed and noisy environment, as an opportunity to reach balance and harmony.

The building, although being an organizational system that develops itself introspectively, it also opens up strategically into the urban fabric, rising punctually at two points, as cloth, allowing passage under the object, allowing the crossing, offering the interior, creating a distinct new urban reality, a protected space, understood as exceptional moment in the sequential chronology of urban routes, an invitation for a pause, enticing the discovery, inviting the crossing, welcoming the entrance, embracing the citizen.

The conscious choice of the circular shape provides a peaceful, almost implied relation to the context of confrontation. By its natural features, form is fluid, continuous, allowing a subtle, yet direct, relation with the environment. The circular shape allows the required intelligibility for the assimilation of the building. The shape is not an imposition in the context, but a dynamic challenge to the environment.

Location:Setúbal, Portugal

Project Team: Bruno André, Francisco Salgado Ré, Catarina Fernandes, Fernando Ferreira, Filipe Paixão

Engenieering & sustainability: AFA consult

Area:2,398 m2

Year: 2013

Promoter:Setúbal Municipality, Portugal