Standing out for its uniqueness and punctuality in the landscape, the tower is similar to the surrounding buildings, in proportion and dimension, but completely distinctive in its concept approach.
The volumetric composition is the result of the architecture drive to develop housing typologies with more than 200 square meters of balcony areas per floor. Evidencing a structuralist matrix with vertical dendriform section, the building is adaptable to the typology optimization.
The design moves away from the idea of multi-family housing, approaching that of single-family housing in height. The floors, organized with one or two rooms, build a spiral speech where the apparent rotation and modelling of the terraces at 360 degrees give it a visual and real sense of verticality. Between a revivalism that evokes the tower and the notions of total space as total life, ‘Miramar Tower’ is a habitable sculpture where the Douro River meets the Atlantic Ocean.
Architect: OODALandscape Architects:P4 Artes e Técnicas da PaisagemDesign Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Julião Pinto Leite, João Jesus, Joana Ferreira, Carlos Leite Pereira, Tânia Ferreira, and Silvia AfonsoClient: BurgosublimePhotographer: Guilherme Oliveira / Gerardo Burmester
