College of Business Administration

The building is located at the Campus, outside the city. In the absence of a general order for the spatial planning, the already built structures on Campus seem to have grown autonomously, without apparent relation. The only obligations imposed were the number of floors (2-3), the relative location of the new building and the maintenance of the many (and beautiful) cork trees. The program contained classrooms, laboratories, lbrary, auditoriums, teacher's dens, administration bureau and management bodies, covering a rough area of 129.000 ft². We could not find an empty land parcel with the necessary dimension for such a big volume, so we chose to build on 2 lots, separated by the Campus's road. Given the autonomy verified in the pre-existent buildings, we wanted this new school to communicate clearly to its neighbour structures, thus giving the first boost to a broad collective vision, and the smallness of the available land lots forced us to a closeness with the existing constructions.