DESIGN PORT WINE CENTER
DESIGN
Architecture Port wine center
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DESIGN PORT WINE CENTER
DESIGN
Architecture Port wine center
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Wine labyrinth Sustainable architecture studio
strategy for the touristic city Built at the end of the 19th century, the platform of the customs house of Oporto ‘Alfândega’ resulted of a great impact on the city. A major part of the city has become isolated from the riverfront, creating a dead arcade under houses that once were vibrant with life, commerce, and goods exchange. The masterplan reintroduces the platforms in immediate contact with the river as a chance for the local public to find a place on the site without having to be involved in a highly oriented facilities towards culture and tourism. .
Location : PORTO, PORTUGAL Project : WINE LABYRINTH Context: DESIGN STUDIO Date : JANUARY 2017
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-Finding the Lost Spaces: Built at the end of the 19th century, the platform of the customs house of Oporto ‘Alfândega’ resulted of a great impact on the city. A major part of the city has become isolated from the riverfront, creating a dead arcade under houses that once were vibrant with life, commerce, and goods exchange. The masterplan reintroduces the platforms in immediate contact with the river as a chance for the local public to find a place on the site without having to be involved in a highly oriented facilities towards culture and tourism.
-A place to wander around: The Labyrinth: “the sublimity of thoughtfulness and of stepping aside” Labyrinths are the opposite of chaos or angular confusion. They are forms of heightened rational order and as such the opposite of mazes. With their meandering paths, where in their countless turns people lose their orientation toward the outside, labyrinths are tropes of the intellect withdrawing into the body, of the dovetailing of myth and logic. The project is a subtle interpretation of the rhythm of the city aiming to create a labyrinth where users are lead and mislead throughout the spaces and functions of the project.
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-The modern touristic city: A «tourist» /noun / a person who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure. With the rise of tourism rates to the Douro valley, recreating a suitable recreational riverfront is crucial.Yet a project that is unique in site where visitors discover every time something new, is an attempt to predict and avoid falling into the mainstream transformation of major cities into “the touristic city”.
-A place for the locals: A «flâneur» /noun / A man who saunters around observing society.’ uninvolved but highly perceptive bourgeois dilettante. Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire described the flâneur in ambivalent terms, equal parts curiosity and laziness and presented a taxonomy of flânerie—flâneurs of the boulevards, of parks, of the arcades, of cafés, mindless flâneurs and intelligent flâneurs. Understanding the site as a public space that is still a part of the city connected by passages formed by extending the alleys of what once was connected to the river.
Site
New perspectives
Platforms
Links
Levels
finding the form
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The DOURO and OPORTO With the passage of time, the river has a dialogue wiht the project’s spaces, and it goes this way;
Wine museum at level 0
at level 2
at level 4
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