Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal
Diogo Aguiar &
Teresa Otto
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
Year after year, the students of Oporto School of Architecture are invited to think on a temporary bar to represent their institution with the expected dignity, as an outstanding architectural object. The given implantation, the fast construction and the low budget are some of the premises which must be considered.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
The proposed bar stands as an iconic cube of light, composed of modular parts. Taking advantage of the
IKEA build-by-your-own world, the project is a parallelepiped made out of different depth storage boxes which give it the modular diversity on its textured skin. After winning the competition, some adjustments were done and the bar grew to 4,7 metre high, standing as a visual reference.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
Built in one week with the help of students, it was completed one month after the jury announcement. A total of 420 boxes were first fixed on a wooden structure and then attached to the main metal structure, on site. A huge LED net was fixed behind the boxes, allowing the bar to dramatically change its appearance: by day a white abstract and closed volume; and by night a box of changing light following the DJ set.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar |
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| situation plan--drawing Courtesy of Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto |
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| plan & section--drawing Courtesy of Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto |
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| diagram 01--drawing Courtesy of Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto |
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| diagram 02--drawing Courtesy of Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto |
The people
Architects: Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto
Location: Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal
Client: Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Arquitectura (AEFAUP)
Structure and other Specialties: Acústica F.E.S., Lda – Estruturas, Iluminação e Som, with the colaboration of students of AEFAUP.
Floor Area: 9 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Sandra Neto & Diogo Aguiar
