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"Oporto's city block rehabilitation: reverse to converge"

Ramón López-Leitón. Porto, Portugal

  • Name of work in English

    "Oporto's city block rehabilitation: reverse to converge"

  • Name of work in original language

    Oporto Urban Block Rehabilitation

  • Prize year

    Young Talent 2016

  • Work Location

    Porto, Portugal

  • Author/s

    Ramón López-Leitón

  • 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

  • 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.


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