An architecture bath in Open House Porto – Overview

in the recovery of Bolhão Palace,” the major concern was not to touch the original decor, “says the architect José Gigante

Rui Duarte Silva

More than ten years to return to the Port Bolhão Palace. “It was a work of Santa Engracia,” says Pedro Aparicio, the direction of the School of Arts and Theatre Bolhão, who was handed the building. According to Joseph Gigante, architect responsible for the work, “the major concern was not to touch the original decor.” This was possible with the construction of an annex building, in contrast to the halls of the palace. Both Pedro Aparicio as Joseph Gigante make the guided tours, during which they will count these and many other stories.
Is this contact who knows the architectural projects is one of the gains of the Open House, a business roadmap free you want to appreciate the architecture of excellence. In 2015, the Port integrated for the first time the Open House Family and more than 11,000 visitors toured the 42 sites chosen then. This year, 51 were selected by the local commissioners Jorge Figueira and Carlos Machado e Moura. There are also more guided tours, which will count with the help of 62 experts (where possible, the authors of the projects). In Porto, Matosinhos and Vila Nova de Gaia, there will be 160 volunteers to monitor the visits, mostly do not require advance booking, working the entries in order of arrival. “We want to bring the architecture beyond the inner circle of professionals who with her deal with every day,” says Nuno Sampaio, director of the House of Architecture, program producer, along with the Triennale Lisbon Architecture.

the Cruise Terminal of the Port of Leixões, for now forbidden to the public, will be open to visitors. One will be conducted by the project architect, Luis Pedro Silva

Lucilia Monteiro

Among the priorities is to “review contemporary monuments that led to the international recognition of the Porto School of Architecture as the pool of Leça, “argues Jorge Figueira. Still wanted to highlight “the beauty and the innovative character of Port Engineering” (in the case of Edgar Cardoso laboratory), focus on social housing (with visits to neighborhoods of Lagarteiro and Cedofeita), and “honor Porto eclectic early twentieth century, with works that show how the city has prepared for those times with a refined architecture, complex and robust “(as the São João National Theatre in Porto, or Casa Barbot, in Vila Nova de Gaia) . The doors are open.

This edition of Open House Porto will have some new features, such as hot air balloon ascents, drawing actions developed by students of the School of Architecture in places where you expect larger queues waiting areas and prepared to receive people with disabilities

Open House Porto & gt.; Porto, Matosinhos and Vila Nova de Gaia & gt; June 18 to 19, Sat-Sun