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Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Secondary School

• Location: Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
• Solution: Buildings
• Type: Rehabilitation, Education
• Promoter: Parque Escolar
• Architecture: Jorge Sousa Santos
• Scope: Foundations and structures, water supply and sewerage
• Area: Remodelling: 9000m2 / New construction: 5500m2
• Project: 2008
• Construction: 2010
• Photography: João Morgado
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This is a school dated from the 60’s. Comprises a block of classrooms, divided into five structural blocks with three floors, a single-floor block with workshops, and a third block comprising the dining area and the kitchen, at the floor level, as well as a gym at the 1st floor. There is also an autonomous sports pavilion.

This project includes the remodelling of the existing structures, with light structural interventions, and the construction of four new buildings with several functions, (library and auditorium, classrooms, gatehouse and an outdoor walkway).

The majority of the new construction consists of reinforced concrete structures, complemented with the use of steel structures.