Gomos System Prefabricated Buildiing Design, Portuguese Architecture
Modular Building System in Vale de Cambra, Portugal
Sistema Gomos Modular Units: Prefabricated Buildings – design by SUMMARY studio
22 Jul 2017
Modular Building System in Vale de Cambra, Portugal
SUMMARY  unveils  its  latest  project  using  the  Gomos System
or ?How to raise a 1000m2 building in a few months?
After the Gomos#1 prototype (video) and the exhibition in La Biennale di Venezia, SUMMARY studio unveils the newest project using their modular building system.

This project was born in order to build housing and multi?services spaces, in a common roadside area in Vale de Cambra, Portugal. The client required that the construction should be fast, cost effective and changeable over time, which prompted the studio to use prefabricated elements and to leave parts of the project undefined.
In Alejandro Aravena’s words, ?SUMMARY?s proposed set of prefabricated elements has managed to balance the logics of prefabricated infrastructure and architecture as support?*. This project configures a practical example of this architectural approach, assuming the immediacy, flexibility and resources optimization as the core themes.

The strategy is clear: a ground floor level for the multi-services program connected with the public space, crowned by the individual habitational units. Due to the differences between the two programs, it was created an independent access for each function, placing...