2007 / PT - Vila Nova de Gaia
Invitation only competition; not built
Client: Teixeira Duarte
Authorship: Nuno Graça Moura & Guilherme Machado Vaz
Collaboration: Rita Machado, Carlos Castro, Pedro Gonçalves
3D images: 3Dsign
The plan defines three closed city blocks, which is a specially poor and inadequate solution in this case. We envisage to create free space for squares and gardens and therefore suggest that the plan should to be changed. The buildings are 60m high and are adapted to the surrounding scale. Lower complementary buildings define squares. Commercial spaces are on the lower floors. Above are the apartments. The terraces on roofs provide a swimming-pool, a playground, sports facilities, solarium, gardens, etc. for communal use. Each building has a different apartment typology. The structural system is modular, hence provides great flexibility. A regular and thick dark concrete grid defines the facades.
© Nuno Graça Moura