Edp Foundation’s Maat in Lisbon Nears Completion by Al A
Channel: A As Architecture
Date: 2019-02-28

MAAT will be the focal point of the EDP Foundation Campus site on the River Tagus in the district of Belém, at the heart of an exciting urban revitalisation along one of Lisbon’s most historic waterfronts. Housed within two buildings on a 3.8 hectare site, MAAT comprises the elegant new kunsthalle structure and the recently renovated Central Tejo power station. Blending structure into landscape, the kunsthalle is designed to allow visitors to walk over, under as well as through the building. 

The kunsthalle contains four distinct gallery spaces that sit beneath a gracefully undulating roof, which has been conceived to create significant new public spaces on the roof and along the waterfront.
The building’s textured façade is composed of 15,000 three-dimensional crackle-glazed tiles manufactured by Ceràmica Cumella. Building on Lisbon’s rich tradition of craft, the complex surface is a contemporary expression of this characteristic Portuguese building material.

The tiles capture the changing light and give mutable readings of the exceptional southern light that vary with the time of day and the seasons. Speaking about the design, Amanda Levete, Principal of AL_A, commented: “In understanding EDP’s ambition for Lisbon, our design draws on the context of the site, creating both physical and conceptual connections to the waterfront and back to the heart of the city". Source by AL_A. Info project 

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