EDP Headquarters

摘要

The legacy designed the project's major gesture. The distant past of the city, or the history of the land claimed from the water, dictated the establishment of the building forms along the river's edge. They enclose a square, a public space, and a mass of air that give meaning to the building. The structure is etched with vertical elements which provide modulation, structure, and protection from the sun while resolving the whole building. Variable profiles are subtly modeled within a smooth and continuous design, where the plans delicately suggest themselves. An ever-changing facade varies with the light, half-light, or shadow, and changes from more opaque and mysterious, to more transparent, revealing the light pulsating within it. The gesture resolves the project, protecting working space, creating courtyards in section and public functions within the horizontal square.