Contemporary Art Museum – Anjos Park, Lisbon

 

The CAMB, inserted in the Anjos Park with a Palace, dating from the late nineteenth century, one of the most emblematic historic buildings of Oeiras and with a surrounding landscape characterized by a rich variety of species.
It was this reality that led to the intervention process developed by Rio Plano, the need to think of the space as a whole, developing a project linking the architectural with the green space.

In the vicinity of the relationship between cultural, recreational and educational in the museum, evoking the ‘art’, as base concept of the project was the motto Sophia de Mello Breyner poem, entitled ‘The house and garden’ served as a point of starting to give the forms and uses of the proposal.

By the interpretation of the poem was plan five different zones in the garden : The Garden of all presences, where evokes the symbolism of holding the five senses by planting aromatic; The Garden of terror and clarity, which advocates the idea of the forest through the shadow image given treetop; The Garden of nights and sunsets, dedicated to introspection and expression, symbolized by a path that culminates in a coated slate wall to leave some messages; The Garden of suspended voices, where culminates a large part of the activities; The Garden unit, which joins the ‘new’ to ‘old’ space.

The Park was opened in 2008 and since then has been an important cultural and environmental point in Oeiras, every day attracting hundreds of people of all ages, and was recognized with the Tourism Portugal award and the National award for Landscape Architecture.