Porto 2.Projects 9. Casa Armanda Passos. Casa das Artes Porto, Portugal Eduardo Souto de Moura auditorium, cinema, exposition space

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1 Porto 2 Projects 9 Created 09-Sep-17 By Oliver Saure, Bochum, Germany Casa das Artes auditorium, cinema, exposition space Almeida Garrett Library Burgo Tower Commercial Building in Boavista Casa Armanda Passos 7 She Changes 8 Janet Echelman art, landmark, sculpture 4 Urban Renewal Aliados Avenue 9 Alvaro Siza Vieira square, urban plan 5 housing 3 commercial space, office Housing Block Alvaro Siza Vieira private house José Manuel Soares archive, culture, exposition space, library 2 Education Center of Antas 10 Atelier Veloso Arquitectos primary school 6 commercial space, shopping centre 1

2 Casa das Artes Rua de Ruben A 4050 Porto The building is located in the gardens of a neo-classical mansion in Porto, dating from the beginning of the 20th century The program for the competition proposed a cinema, an auditorium and an exhibition gallery, as well as the conservation of the gardens as they were This is one of the first built projects of Eduardo Souto Moura It's mainly composed of two parallel granite stone walls, with all the programin the middle With a very minimalistic approach, this building is composed of great building details, reminding some of Mies Van der Rohe's characteristics 1981 Architect, Interior architect Client Joao_Sousa Secretaria de Estado da Cultura Take a bus from the city center that passes on the street "Rua do Campo Alegre", or at the "Avenida da Boavista" From there it's easy to reach it by foot 2

3 Almeida Garrett Library Rua de Entre Quintas Porto This building has two great functions: Public Library and a new exposition hall There is also an auditorium for 200 people determined to conferences, films projection and other shows Its location, between the street "Entrequintas" and the gardens of the crystal palace has an intense presence with the nature giving it a peaceful environment to build a library With a great attention to details, the main façade is covered with pine wood to create a shield from the sun to the exposition rooms The library has to floors with a big opening that connects visually the two levels 2001 Architect Client José Manuel Soares Câmara Municipal do Porto Joao_Sousa Monday: Tuesday-Saturday: bus: 601, 302, 200, 207, 201, 501, 601, ZM 3

4 Burgo Tower Avenida da Boavista Porto This office complex is located in the Avenida da Boavista, the biggest straight line avenue in that extends from "Casa da Música" till the Sea in West This complex opens a large square between the two buildings, one horizontal and the other vertical The square is occupied by a big sculpture by the Porto architect/sculptor Nadir de Afonso The buildings were drawn with very simple shapes, following the influences of Mies and the Chicago buildings The main interest about the building is its façade Its skin is composed out of a single module that wraps all the volumes That module was studied so it could fit on 2 different ways creating a glass façade and an opaque façade Public access unknown! Floor area/size m² Architect, Interior architect, Urban planner Infrastructure consultant Client Joao_Sousa AFA Associados Douro Atlântico photo: Filipe Brandão In "Avenida da Boavista", from "Casa da Música" it's a 10 minute walk 4

5 Housing Block Rua do Teatro Porto This housing block situated on the western part of Porto, in front of the Atlantic ocean is a conceptual reinvention of the traditional urban houses of the XVIII century Instead of a stone structure, here the structure is in steel but is completely visible and separated from the other elements But at the same time there are traditional materials that were used on the façades, transposing the modern architecture into a more site related project Project is not public! 1995 Architect, Interior architect, Urban planner Joao_Sousa On the western part of Porto called "Foz" it's easy to reach From the avenue "Avenida do Brasil" that follows the coast line 5

6 Commercial Building in Boavista Avenida da Boavista 4050 Porto The building is designed like a succession of boxes disposed randomly over a platform From the traditional platform-like style building that Souto Moura uses to make, now he rethinks the concept of the box-like architecture, transforming it into a composition of boxes that generate an urban façade over the avenue 2008 Architect, Interior architect Joao_Sousa Depending of the stores The building is located in the Avenida da Boavista right in front of the east entry to the city park There are several Buses going down that avenue 6

7 photo: Carlos Dias Casa Armanda Passos Av do Mal Gomes da Costa 4150 Porto Amidst horizontal and vertical planes conditioned by the contours of the terrain, memories of Zen gardens and fire signs, the Armanda Passos house has gently risen Designed to be lived in at all hours of the day, when light seeks out shade, and shade opens itself to the light, the house-atelier, commissioned by painter Armanda Passos from the most international name in Portuguese architecture, allows the complicity naturally created by the architect with his work to transpire at each step This is the second dwelling designed by Siza in Porto The first was built in the 1960 s on the Avenida dos Combatentes photo: Carlos Dias Project is not public! 2005 Architect Client Alvaro Siza Vieira Armanda Passos MI_MOA 7

8 photo: Sahil Latheef photo: Carlos Dias She Changes Praça de Cidade do Salvador 4100 Porto is home to artist Janet Echelman's 'She Changes', a 160-foot-tall waterfront netted wind sculpture suspended above a 3-lane highway roundabout, which received the IFAI International Achievement Award and the Public Art Network's Year in Review Award It is a monumental, red and white, membrane-like sculpture at the Praca Cidade San Salvador in the town of Matosinhos along the shoreline outside of Porto Through her art, Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental public sculptures that respond to environmental forces including wind, water, and sunlight "I am a sculptor who shapes urban space I prefer the immediacy and challenge of transforming sites that are either unnoticed infrastructure that have faded from public memory, or iconic landmarks that are so overexposed they become habitual background" photo: Carlos Dias 2005 Artist Janet Echelman MI_MOA 24/7 8

9 photo: Traço Alternativo photo: Traço Alternativo Urban Renewal Aliados Avenue Avenida dos Aliados Porto The Project for the Avenida dos Aliados surges from the need to build, in that place, three metro stations that are practically contiguous: São Bento, Aliados and Trindade The intervention opted for the reformulation of the existing vegetation, it privileged the thick arboreal but freed the ground from flower beds and other obstacles which restricted the use of the Avenue located in the heart of the city as a large public space, as it happens in countless cities, responding to a use that was, in fact, already in practice, although in precarious conditions The project redesigned the urban furniture but re-used the old existing street lamps On the upper side of the Avenue, near the City Hall, a water mirror was built, surrounded by benches, chairs and trees 2005 Main designer, Architect Architect Alvaro Siza Vieira ArchitecturalGuides photo: Traço Alternativo 9

10 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Education Center of Antas Rua Estádio Porto The spatial and architectural design of the building of the new Antas Education Center were formalized in several volumes, each containing part of the program in accordance with principles of internal organization, functionality, form and image, given the type of building and its specificity The intension was to formalize and realize the program provided through a drawing of building capable of being fragmented into several bodies interconnected with exterior spaces, which create diverse environments It?s a building consisting of several bodies expressed by a?simple architecture? that will build a close relationship with the exterior spaces It was intended to create in the spaces between the various bodies the visual relationship between interior and exterior reducing relations with the urban surroundings 2010 Architect Atelier Veloso Arquitectos Nazar photo: Nazar Leskiw 10