
Porto
Foundry No. 4
Year
2023
Location
Porto
Typology
Commercial
Area
2,180 m²
Status
Completed
Client
Norte Cultura
I
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Brief
Commercial
+00.00
A disused iron foundry turned over to workshops, studios and a public canteen. The casting hall and the concrete charge bunkers were kept almost entirely intact, and the flooded quench pond became the court they all face.
New floors are hung from the original frame rather than propped off the ground, leaving the hall readable at full height from the entrance. Nothing new touches the old concrete without a visible shadow gap.
II
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Plates
Photography — Tomás Ferreira
+03.60




III
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Credits
Completed
+07.20
Our role
Architecture, Adaptive Reuse
Collaborators
Ferro Estruturas
Photography
Tomás Ferreira
Recognition
EU Mies Award 2024 — Nominated

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