Melquiades Healing Center
Alternative Medicine Center
location: Penafiel, Portugal
area: 2900,00 m2
data: March 2016
stage: Completed
This project presents a terraced, low-profile healing center embedded into a sloped terrain. It utilizes a restrained material palette—exposed concrete and locally sourced stone cladding—to harmonize with the natural topography. The architecture emphasizes horizontality and repetition through modular, rectilinear volumes that follow the contours of the landscape, creating a dialogue between built and natural environments. The structure is partially buried, enhancing thermal performance and minimizing visual impact. Circulation is integrated through gradual ramps and staircases, reinforcing accessibility and spatial fluidity across the multi-level layout.