Shelter.

Idea by

Ana Pedro Ferreira, Pedro Maria Ribeiro

Pedros atelier

Rua Gonçalves Crespo nº23, Lisboa, Portugal

Ana Pedro Ferreira, Pedro Maria Ribeiro. Architects from University of Évora . In 2011 invited by Architecture Department of University of Évora DAue as assistants in project. In 2013/2015 invited as teachers of project 3rd and 4th year of the Department of the University of Évora 2015 Collaborate in Ventura Trindade Architects. At the same time they develop ideas and projects, each one as research field where they try to deepen new ideas, for different processes.

Call for ideas 2016

We are interested in spaces that change over time. It depends of the nature itself.

# Construction

We were asked to develop one small shelter in the countryside, right in the middle of a Portugal's interior region called Alentejo. In the middle of nowhere, where we feel alone and near nature.

With the option of not being agressive to this idyllic landscape, the main idea was to construct this shelter with the abundant material that we find in situ - cork. This is taken of the trees and goes through a simple process of compression by hot water, and then transformed into cork blocks. The shelter is constructed with these blocks. This way the shelter is like it had always been there, like it always belonged to the place itself.

This is an opportunity to build with the place and at the same time create a new form of application for this rudimentar material. This is a shelter to be alone with yourself and with nature

We are interested in spaces that change over time. For us doing architecture is being a part of a process that is never finished. It depends of the nature itself.

Model 1/10

shelter

structure and landsacape

alone with yourself and with nature

sections of shelter

We are interested in spaces that change over time. It depends of the nature itself.

# Construction

We were asked to develop one small shelter in the countryside, right in the middle of a Portugal's interior region called Alentejo. In the middle of nowhere, where we feel alone and near nature.

This is an opportunity to build with the place and at the same time create a new form of application for this rudimentar material. This is a shelter to be alone with yourself and with nature

We are interested in spaces that change over time. For us doing architecture is being a part of a process that is never finished. It depends of the nature itself.