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Memorial Combatentes Ultramar

As a response to designing a memorial to the Colonial War soldiers we used memories to reset the public space.

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Pedestrian continuity

This element is a gate and a connector. It guides the way up in a very narrow, “bunker like” feeling, releasing the pedestrian at the site, on a higher level.

Preservation

A green stripe embraces the existing trees, keeping the outline limits of the site and reinforcing the circulation axes.

Simbology

Three countries (Angola, Moçambique and Guiné Bissau) and three branches of the Portuguese army (infantry, navy and air force) suggested a triangular shape, that symbolically embodies these elements into one.

Memory

Twenty pillars make an allusion to the green dense forests of Africa as well as standing platoons. One casualty is spatially remembered with an exceptional pillar and a place for contemplation.

Program:

Public Space

Location:

Cabeçudos, Portugal

Date:

2012

Architecture:

Miguel Roque, Rui Santos

Client:

Associação dos Combatentes da Guerra Colonial de Cabeçudos

Area:

470m²

Collaborators:

Luís Gomes (Art),

Vasco Fonseca (Engineering)

Construction:

José Moreira Sampaio & C. Lda.

Photography:

Miguel Roque

Status:

Built

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