Surrounded by inherited industrial and residential uses resulting from successive transformations and urban amputations, ‘Matadouro’ seeks to transform the narrative about conservation and regeneration in the city of Porto and be a benchmark for future developments.
Devalued with the implementation of internal city motor-way, the schism with the Dragão Stadium and the Metro is overcome through a crossing bridge with an impactful design morphology, that allows an extended overview on the former industrial slaughterhouse and the Campanhã valley.
The functional miscegenation of the bodies that made up the old Slaughterhouse is unified by the head of access and the described crossing. The modelled and perforated roof adds the existing diversity and complexity with a shaded unit and conformity that covers the voids between volumes. A common public identity is generated between sides of the city, through a social and cultural programmatic integration that gives back the city its lost scale.
Architect: OODA + KKAADesign Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Julião Pinto Leite, João Jesus, João Styliano, Manuel Tavares, João Amorim, Laura Leão, Catarina Fernandes, Pedro Silva, Luís Ferreira (OODA); Rita Topa, Jagoda Krawczik, Andrea Toccolini (Kengo Kuma and Associates)Client: Oriental HUBPhotographer: Guilherme Oliveira / Gerardo Burmester
