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Mountain Botanic Garden

• Location: Covilhã, Portugal
• Solution: Infrastructure and Transport
• Type: Urbanism, environment and public areas, Supply and drainage networks
• Architecture: Arpas
• Client: Covilhã City Hall
• Scope: Foundations and structure, sewerage and water supply
• Area: 12000m2
• Project: 2007
• Construction: 2012
• Contractor: Valerio&Valerio
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The Mountain Botanical Garden, located in the Alexandre Aibéo Park, brings together a vast diversity of species, which can be appreciated through the pedestrian paths created during this landscape intervention.

The landscaping and architectural arrangement also provided for the creation of a support infrastructure with reception, restrooms, bar and panoramic terrace. The Publicity Center Building is a construction with a reinforced concrete structure with a semi-buried basement, a ground floor and roof. The basement ceiling, which occupies roughly half of the building's implantation area, is materialized by a reinforced concrete slab supported by peripheral retaining walls and a beam. Following the ground floor there is a wooden terrace with a deck supported by wooden beams. The deck support beams, in turn, are supported by a steel angle fixed to the building's reinforced concrete wall and by a wooden frame structure, which peripherally surrounds the floor. The roof structure consists of reinforced concrete slabs.

The intervention also included the construction of a reinforced exposed concrete tank, various works regarding the execution of ground floors, stairs molded over the terrain, gutters and small drainage ditches and the entrance gate.