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The pre-existing building, a three-storey concrete frame grid construction, had already been subject to an intervention by the architect Álvaro Siza, for adaptation to a small neighbourhood supermarket (Unicoope Domus Supermarket, 1972/1973). Coincidentally a space that the author had frequented in his childhood and whose shape and image he still has in his visual memory. Meanwhile, heavily altered, uninhabitable, and with the aforementioned intervention practically unrecognisable, a programme is requested for autonomous fractions of flexible and adaptable workspaces. The project proposes open-space floors without finishing touches, for absolute flexibility of use, integrating two flights of metal stairs to access the units autonomously. The façade is coated with a sandwich panel of corrugated aluminium sheeting, repeating the semantic principle of the 1970s intervention by the architect Álvaro Siza (at the time made with a coating of corrugated fibre-cement elements), adapting its condition to the principle of the new programmatic adjustment. The need to open new openings geometrically pursued the compositional principles of the original work. The project aimed to maintain the memory of an intervention that no longer existed, programmatically and materially, but whose strength and authority was unavoidable. So the project was done with simple and immediate decisions.
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project:
get, omega and ohm-e building
location:
porto, portugal
date:
2011 - 2013
building area:
515 m2
architecture:
nuno brandão costa
collaborators:
joanna katherine guimarães, luísa moura, rita leite

hydraulic engineer:
josé carvalho (omega)
electrical engineer:
ohm-e
mechanical engineer:
raul bessa (get)
photographs:
arménio teixeira