Link: Castelo Branco Chair
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Link: Castelo Branco Project

"In the Urbanistic Plan of Castelo Branco, the Largo da Devesa park with its former cavalry barracks is intended to become a major civic centre. On the Slopes of the Castle Mount, the project uses the topography to set transverse strips, in order to obtain a central project space whose gentle slopes give rise to a nearly natural water lake, in front of the Cultural Centre.

The Cultural Centre will house an Auditorium, a Contemporary Art Centre and a Library. The body of the building is designed hanging between two feet, with the vertical communications, while liberating on the ground a covered square to be used as an ice skating rink" (Josep Lluís Mateo, from Memory of the competition, 2001).