Project: CACE centro cultural do freixo Objective: university final work Location: freixo-porto-portugal Date: 06 Concept: The main purpose of the building is to offer qualified work spaces to young companies of architecture, design, photography, and other art related business. To support this there are infrastructures that improve work and is relation with the public, such as: meeting rooms, leisure lounge spaces, public reception, bar, showroom, an auditorium with 250 seats and rooms to install invited tutors, for workshops, conferences or others. The building is a mass that gains its life in the land slope, witch is the first burst to its dynamic development. The form is then sequentially and gradually projected into the air, breaking apart volumes until reaching the river, where the form disintegrates exploding in modules suspended above the water environment. The architecture does not intend to be a forced and strange element in the...
