河流水族馆位于北阿连特茹地区的一个小市镇莫拉。鉴于需要将区域发展从对日益疲软的农业经济的依赖转移到环境旅游和休闲市场，该市发起了一个水族馆的设计和建造竞赛，该水族馆可以在某种程度上体现伊比利亚河的生物多样性的范例。

The River Aquarium is located in Mora, a small municipality in the Northern Alentejo region. Given the need to shift regional development from the dependence of an increasingly weaker agriculture economy into the environmental tourism and leisure market, the municipality launched a design-and-build competition for an aquarium that could somehow embody the paradigms of biodiversity of the Iberian river.

该建筑被纳入加梅罗的生态野生公园，并与雷亚河相邻，矗立在一片僻静的软木和橄榄树中，远离河边更激烈的休闲和钓鱼活动。该地块平缓起伏的地形在两条小河的汇合处形成一个盆地。将水族馆放置在这个准自然保留湖的边缘，使其主题内容和淡水的存在之间的基本关系结合起来。

Integrated in the Ecological Wild Park of Gameiro and bordering the Raia stream, the building stands amidst a secluded field of cork and olive trees removed from the more intense leisure and fishing activities of the river. The plot’s gently undulating topography forms a basin at the confluence of two small watercourses. Placing the aquarium at the edge of this quasi-natural retaining lake brought together the fundamental relation between its thematic contents and the presence of fresh water.

考虑到阿连特茹的烈日和创造阴凉的需要，该建筑被设计成一个紧凑的整体体，有一个单跨33米的白色预制混凝土薄门廊的斜面庇护所，让人想起被称为 “蒙特斯 “的阿连特茹粉刷谷仓的轮廓。遮阳和交叉通风系统以及水循环促进了冷却能源的减少，湿度的可持续增长以及动物和植物的健康。

Given the blazing Alentejo sun and the need to create shade, the building was devised as a compact and monolithic volume with a pitched shelter of thin white pre-cast concrete porticos with single spans of 33 metres, evoking the profile of the canonical Alentejo whitewash barns known as “montes”. The shading and cross ventilation systems along with the water circuits foster the reduction of cooling energy, the sustainable increase of humidity and the wellbeing of animal and plant life.

站在一个巨大的混凝土基座上，有一个内置的楼梯兼坡道入口，倾斜的棚子掩盖了一组包含项目的静音箱，即：接待处、票务和商店、餐厅、变化的展览厅、文献中心、研究和教育、现场展览、多媒体和一个小礼堂。在内部，展览空间往往是黑暗的，以尽量减少紫外线对活体展品的影响，并允许游客深入观看水族馆。在这些方案箱和有顶棚之间的室外空隙，不仅产生了加速向外的视点，而且还产生了一条长廊，最终通过湖上的桥梁，这本身也是一个在该地区收集和培育的动物和植物的现场展览。

Standing on a massive concrete plinth with a built-in stairway-cum-ramp entry, the pitched shed veils a set of mute boxes that contain the programme, namely; reception, ticketing and shop, cafeteria, changing exhibits hall, documentation centre, research and education, live exhibits, multimedia and a small auditorium. Inside, the exhibition spaces tend to be dark, in order to minimize UV impact on the live exhibits and allow visitors an in-depth viewing of the aquariums. The outdoor void between these programme boxes and the pitched shed generates not only accelerated viewpoints onto the outside but also a promenade that culminates in the passage through a bridge over the lake which in itself is also a live exhibit of animals and plants collected and nurtured in the region.

活体展品是水族馆的主要特征，通过复杂的生命支持系统，重现不同地区的生境条件，使各种动物和植物并排展出。在地下室，这些支持系统保证了水温、PH值、质量控制和每个生境参数的稳定性，包括在每个展品下面的管道走廊，以供应和监测水。在这个建筑中，水是从地块上的井中抽取的，用泵抽到存款中，使用后再进行再生。此外，动物检疫、食物准备、实验室、工作人员设施和后勤等区域使技术楼层更加完整。
除了现浇混凝土基座和白色预制门廊外，方案箱体采用抛光处理的抹灰陶土砌筑，并配有钢架和清漆中密度纤维板木架。莫拉河水族馆的总建筑面积为2000平方米，包括500多个活体标本，预计每年将接待20万名游客。

The live exhibits, the main feature of an aquarium, reproduce, through complex life support systems, the habitat conditions of different regions allowing to exhibit side-by-side the various animals and plants. On the basement, these support systems guaranty stability of water temperature, ph, quality control and filtering for each habitat parameter, including a duct gallery below each exhibit to supply and monitor the water. For this building, the water is taken from a well on the plot, pumped into a deposit and regenerated after use. In addition, areas for animal quarantine, food preparation, laboratories, staff facilities, and logistics complete the technical floor.
Other than the in-situ concrete cast plinth and the white pre-cast porticoes, the programme boxes are built in polished finish plastered terracotta masonry with steel frames and varnished MDF carpentry. With a total built area of 2000 sq.-m, the Mora River Aquarium includes more than 500 live specimens and is expected to receive 200,000 visitors per year.

Architects: PROMONTORIO
Area: 170000 m²
Year: 2006
City: MORA
Country: Portugal