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SPIRALA
​Spirala Community Home

Project type:   Competition
Award:           Shortlisted
Location:         Beira Baixa, Portugal
Size:               535 m2
Year:               2021
Collaborators:  Daniel Burston, Toby Oxborrow, Emily Young              ​​​

A whole systems approach has been taken in order to investigate and understand how the Spirala Community Home can better integrate with nature. Naturally sourced materials that require minimal processing have been used wherever possible, while other materials have been selected based on their capacity to be reused or recycled, in order to reduce the overall embodied carbon of the building's key components,

A vortex spine informs the plan and gives rise to a space between, a third element, that opens up and closes down to give a variety of spaces suitable for different functions.

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