"House, kitchen, garden in Alcácer do Sal" wins 2017 Archiprix Portugal award

Pedro Frade, a student from the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Faculty of Architecture, was recently named the 2017 Archiprix Portugal recipient for his project "House, kitchen, garden in Alcácer do Sal", tutored by Francisco Aires Mateus. 

The Archiprix Portugal competition showcases intellectual and academic diversity among Portuguese architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism students. Established in 2012 by the Rotterdam-based Archiprix Foundation and the Sierra Henriques Foundation from Lisbon, the prestigious academic prize distinguishes top graduation projects in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.

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Pedro Frade was selected out of 30 nominees by a jury comprising Catarina Raposo, Célia Gomes, Daniel Jiménez, João Santa-Rita, Luís Santiago Baptista, Maria Souto Moura and Nuno Grande. During the award ceremony, 10 students received honorable mentions. 

Have a look at Frade's winning project below.

Winner: Pedro Frade, "House, kitchen, garden in Alcácer do Sal"
Tutor: Francisco Aires Mateus | Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Faculty of Architecture

Project description: “The analysis strategy of the territory of Alcácer do Sal consists in a change of the scale of perception, therefore altering the object's understanding; not as a city or a village, but between scales. The units of intervention, consist in three elements: House, Kitchen and Garden.”

“Located in the settlement place, the hill of Alcácer, the project multiplies itself in punctual interventions, answering to different features of the daily life experience which is present here.”

“The first of the three built artifacts, the House, composes the private and introspective part of the project, giving response to the physiological needs of the individual as well as the immaterial ones, related to one's reflexion and matters of the mind.”

“The Kitchen, as opposed to the first artifact, consists in the place of communion, extending itself from the interior to the public dimension and summoning the gathering.”

“The Garden, third artifact of the proposal, consists in the space of production, containing twenty four species, native to the territory of Alcácer do Sal.”

2017 Honorable mentions:

João Machado - (Re)vitalize Heliópolis Slums, São Paulo, Brazil
Tutor: André Fontes | University of Minho - School of Architecture

Diogo Veiga - Powerful Spaces
Tutor: Helder Casal Ribeiro | University of Porto - Faculty of Architecture 

Inês Loureiro - Collective Social Incremental - 3 works, 1 project
Tutor: Nuno Brandão Costa | University of Porto - Faculty of Architecture

Ana Pinheiro - The Quarry
Tutor: Ana Alves Costa, José Manuel Soares | University of Porto - Faculty of Architecture 

Miguel Frazão - Critic Reconstruction of the Roman Amphitheater of Conimbriga
Tutor: Paulo Providência | University of Coimbra - Faculty of Sciences and Technologies

André Pires - The Evidence of Natural
Tutor: Nuno Mateus | University of Lisbon - Faculty of Architecture

Luís Silvestre - Tagus’ Metamorphose
Tutor: Miguel Baptista-Bastos | University of Lisbon - Faculty of Architecture 

Andrea Toccoloni - Continuità
Tutor: Manuel Aires Mateus, Francisco Aires Mateus | Autonoumous University of Lisbon - Faculty of Architecture

Raquel Vicente - Sado Atlas
Tutor: Inês Lobo, Joaquim Moreno | Autonoumous University of Lisbon - Faculty of Architecture

Ana Isabel Loureiro - The Cartusian Monastery of Santa Maria Scala Coeli
Tutor: Pedro Matos Gameiro, Marta Sequeira Carneiro | University of Évora - School of Science and Technologies

Images courtesy of 2017 Archiprix Portugal.