The student residence, canteen and other support facilities project occupies the northwest part of the Viana do Castelo polytechnic campus.
We divided the building into 3 programmatic parts, corresponding to its more public or private character.

The larger-scale building, with 3 floors, is aligned with the existing buildings to the west, and follows the maximum existing height. This building corresponds to the rooms and other facilities of the student residence and is located to the west, roughly parallel to the sea. It is placed a little elevated, to guarantee the security, inviolability and privacy of the rooms located on the ground floor.

It has access through a central atrium, which communicates with the interior space of the campus, but also an opening to the west for pedestrian access to the street to the west, with a gate in the campus fence.

The building is organized in 3 floors, according to a north-south longitudinal axis, taking advantage of the rooms, to the east and west, the privileged views of the Santa Luzia hill and the Atlantic Ocean. Each room extends to a balcony with flower boxes, in order to increase its area and allow all students the best living conditions, guaranteeing access to autonomous outdoor spaces.

The two remaining parts of the program, the canteen and the gym, face the interior of the Campus.
The canteen is accessible from inside the campus, but autonomous access to the canteen is also guaranteed from the residence hall. The canteen opens onto a generous terrace, with views of the Santa Luzia hill. The gym, with access conditioned by the interior of the residence, also takes advantage of both the relationship with the Santa Luzia hill and the relationship with the artificial lake to the south, whose shape we propose to change and which the vegetation will give more naturalness.

The main access to the set of these programmatic features is made to the east, through an undulating covered path, taking advantage of existing topographic features and vegetation, or purposely created.
This path works as the backbone of the entire complex and presents possibilities for expansion to new buildings or equipment that may appear on the campus. At the northern end of this covered path is an open-air amphitheater made of greenery with stone benches and a backdrop wall.