Article source: ATELIER JQTS

NOVERCA is a project of a multisensory space for the students of Maria Veleda School, in Portugal, and is the result of a process begun about five years ago together with the direction of the school. They wanted to create an autonomous space for multiple handicapped students and there was a lack of resources and founds to actually realize it.

A few years earlier the government had made the decision to integrate all multiple handicapped students in schools without ever creating the necessary conditions for them to have an autonomous teaching space and adapted to their limitations. Ideally these students would have two or three subjects together with the others, and in the rest of the time they would have individual accompaniment in their own space with sensorial equipment. It may be relevant to point out that among all the schools in the country it is extremely rare to have this kind of spaces that certainly facilitate the integration of these students.

Image Courtesy © Diana Quintela

• Architects: ATELIER JQTS
• Project: Noverca House
• Location: Loures, Portugal
• Photography: Diana Quintela
  
• Client: Escola Básica MarIa Veleda
• Project Team: João Quintela, Tim Simon
• Engineering: Carla Belga, Ricardo Gomes
• Interiors Collaboration: Belén Goñalons
• Construction: Jular, Santomargo, Aresta Renovada

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