The Campos Costa Arquitectos firm recently completed work on a new building as an extension of the Lisbon Aquarium in Portugal, utilizing five thousand ceramic tiles which look like fish scales. It is not quite vernacular architecture but it comes close.
The fishbelly white-colored building serves as the aquarium’s new entrance, connecting to the older structure by a bridge in the aquarium’s spacious courtyard. The new structure houses a temporary exhibitions room and an auditorium. The architects state that about a third of the new building’s area is made of circulation spaces. These areas are ventilated and are open to sunlight through the inclusion of open tiles on the building’s facade.
The firm states that their goal was to create an addition which communicates with and compliments the existing structure. The aquarium has a strong presence in the city and is currently being recommended for architectural heritage status.
Above image: The Lisbon Aquarium extension built by Campos Costa Arquitectos. Photograph by Radek Bruneck.
Photographs by Daniel Malhão.
Photograph by Radek Bruneck.
Photographs by Daniel Malhão.
Photograph by Vitor Gabriel.
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