A Walled Oasis
Porto, Portugal
2014

  • A wall wraps around the site of a decommissioned brick factory, enclosing an oasis within — a place of refuge in the city.

    The wall and the movement route create a rich spatial experience through a series of polyphonic overlaps between active and passive spaces, horizontal and vertical accents, and dark and light.

    With subtle details and a modified function, the abandoned site becomes a new public place — one that is rooted in its context, physically, culturally and psychologically.

  • Information

    Project  Adaptive Re-use of a Decommissioned Brick Factory
    Type  Cultural
    Status  Competition
    Surface  9,000 m2
    Client  U8 The Unknown Porto
    Team  Madhusudhan Chalasani, Mario Galiana Liras, Javier Ugarte Albizu and Bharat Kumar Thota

    Award

    Winner, U8 International Competition (2014)

    Publications

    Beta Architecture (2015)
    Revista Uniade Magazine (2014)