Our Campus in Campo de Ourique consists of two buildings designed with innovative, functional, and eco-friendly architectural principles.

The Pavilion dedicated to Early Years is a uniquely shaped wooden structure spanning 500 m2, carefully constructed to minimize impact on the natural environment. This building features 5 classrooms, each directly accessible to the garden, along with a recently refurbished play area located on the rooftop terrace.

The Main Building, spread across 4 floors, houses our Primary Years and 2.º Ciclo students, as well as key school facilities including administrative offices, the school library, science laboratories, an art studio, a music room, a dojo, and a versatile sports hall.

For our Campo de Ourique campus, we have chosen ecological construction using solid wood, specifically favouring bio-sourced materials from renewable resources such as cross-laminated timber (CLT). Solid wood uniquely stores carbon rather than emitting it. The process of transforming wood into CLT and its transportation requires minimal energy, resulting in low CO2 emissions, thereby establishing timber construction as a model of sustainability. Beyond ecological benefits, solid wood offers superior insulation, soundproofing, and fire resistance compared to traditional building materials.

Originally pioneered by French engineer Pierre Gauthier in 1947 and first adopted by architect Jean Prouvé, CLT has since been refined by Swiss and Austrian industries since the early 1990s. This high-precision construction system is renowned for its environmental credentials, being made from 99% natural and fully recyclable materials. CLT not only enhances the aesthetic and functional appeal of buildings through the warmth and visual appeal of natural wood but also provides excellent insulation, soundproofing, and fire resistance.

One of the key advantages of CLT lies in its complete prefabrication in factory conditions. Integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) with CLT enables flawless site preparation and facilitates a wide range of architectural designs. BIM combined with timber construction ensures rapid execution and high-quality outcomes.

Redbridge International School Tapada da Ajuda Campus, which opened in September 2024, is dedicated to serving Secondary School students following the Cambridge Curriculum, as well as those pursuing the French International Pathway from 6ème onwards.

Our campus offers state-of-the-art facilities designed to enhance student’s learning experience. Spanning 3 hectares of land, the campus includes four buildings and outdoor spaces, with sports facilities to support a well-rounded education.

Redbridge International School Tapada da Ajuda Campus offers a cutting-edge pre-university STEEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Ecology, and Mathematics) programme, developed in partnership with the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA).

Our commitment to sustainability is reflected in the development of our new Secondary campus:

Exemplary eco-renovation: the design and rehabilitation of the campus followed an ambitious environmental approach aimed at minimising carbon footprints and long-term water and energy consumption.

Reuse of existing structures: Most abandoned buildings were preserved and fully refurbished. Timber frames were dismantled, restored, and reassembled; roofs rebuilt with insulated wooden panels; existing walls strengthened with external cork insulation to improve thermal performance.

Energy efficiency & user comfort: cross-ventilated classrooms with assisted natural ventilation, covered outdoor walkways reducing heat exposure, CO₂ and temperature sensors operating automated openings, light sensors adjusting artificial lighting, reinforced insulation (glass wool, cork, wood panels), low-maintenance green roof improving thermal inertia, solar panels producing 9,100 kWh (≈45% energy autonomy)

Responsible water management: potable water reserved solely for drinking and catering, on-site wastewater treatment station, treated greywater reused for toilets, rainwater collected and stored for technical uses, treated domestic wastewater reused for irrigation

Landscape and ecological integration: a 3-hectare site within a 130-hectare forest, removal of illegal waste deposits, minimal landscaping to preserve the natural setting, replanting of all relocated species, five outdoor classrooms built using stones found on site.