ARCHITECTURE: Ricardo Bak Gordon _______________________________________________ ADDRESS: Rua Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Lisboa _______________________________________________ CITY: Lisboa ______________________________________________ DATE: 2007-2008 _______________________________________________ VISIT: Inside - Outside _______________________________________________ MORE DETAILS: The investment in the education sector, in particular the Modernization of Educational Facilities Program for Secondary Learning, has as its objective rehabilitating and modernizing high school buildings, replacing their physical and functional efficiency, in a perspective of creating conditions for the practice of a modern education, adapted to the programmatic contents, the didactics and the new information and communication technologies. The intervention of modernization of the D. Dinis Secondary School, beyond improving the architectural, constructive and respective infra-structural conditions of the existing buildings, it also aimed the programmatic improvement of the equipment by adding functional spaces in a centralized location in regards to the existing constructions, so that all the educational activity gravitates around it. The new building, that is linguistically, formally and materially distinctive from the D. Dinis Secondary School, is, according to its author “a type of central space, without a beginning or end, where vital functions of the new school are placed”. _______________________________________________
