"Oporto's city block rehabilitation: reverse to converge"
Ramón López-Leitón. Porto, Portugal
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Name of work in English
"Oporto's city block rehabilitation: reverse to converge"
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Name of work in original language
Oporto Urban Block Rehabilitation
Prize year
Young Talent 2016
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Work Location
Porto, Portugal
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Author/s
Ramón López-Leitón
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School
Architecture & Urbanism - University Fernando Pessoa.
Porto, Portugal
Young Talent 2016 YT Nominees
"Oporto's city block rehabilitation: reverse to converge"
Oporto Urban Block Rehabilitation
Program
Mixed use - Infrastructure & Urban
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Labels
Aggregation · Collective housing · Gardens & Parks · Public Space · Regeneration
This project, developed as a “Final Projet” of the Architecture and Urbanism Master of University Fernando Pessoa, aimed the requalification of an urban fabric void - a part of an existing block - now occupied with a temporarily pre-constructed car parking structure.
The project propose the rehabilitation of all existing historic buildings and the project a new volume that, in order to create a neutral background to the existing historic buildings (instead of conflicting with them), it shows itself as a monolithic architectural shape that constantly adapts itself to the movement of the four streets around the block. Being a 'pass trough' place, situated between a main train station and the political and commercial urban center of Porto, the project aims to contradict this feature and offer to the site sometime that doesn’t exist: an covered public square. The idea of 'block interior', traditionally reserved for private use and closed from the exterior views is now conceptually reversed in order to connect interior with exterior; to meet public with private; to confront stay with go; to congregate street with square; to face run with walk; to converge to diverge.