The tower designed by OODA was inspired by the repetition of the stacked containers of the nearby port of Leixões, generating a façade composed of modules that allow the tower to adapt to the different scales of its urban neighbours. Its compactness and densification allow the growth of green spaces, facilitating a greater number of rest areas and the possibility of a strategic location of technical devices.
The tower, which combines unity and formal diversity, reflects in its façade a pronounced pattern of orthogonalities and a virtuous three-dimensionality, a formal and material relief whose superposition of layers reflects the varied offer of typologically diverse apartments, that it houses inside.
Tower 15 by OODA. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
Project description by OODA
Tower 15 is an integrated urban and landscape initiative, where the low-lying plant was transformed into a vibrant public space, merging with local commercial and tourist perfection. Within the existing structure, a variety of apartments are offered from one to four dwellings, with four duplex apartments, combined together and formally.
As a result, we obtain a dynamic and visually impactful vertical composition, which introduces useful gradations in its regular and structured design. The building in this mismo is erected as a singular entity, which is defined by its image and language and is characterized by an orthogonal expression and a virtuoso three-dimensionality. The formal and material relief is produced by the superposition of various layers, dynamically alternating and grouped to create a visual carpet.
It was inspired by the repetition observed in the containers placed in the Puerto de Leixões, in Matosinhos, Portugal. The fachada consists of 6 nodular modules, which allow you to adapt the design to different uses. In addition to the modular capacity of the fachada, the design also allows for the increase in green spaces, descanso areas and the strategic ubiquity of technical devices.
We created a gradual approach, presenting both in the apartment as small as in the largest, mixed typologies and promoting a dynamic fachada in which the tower experienced a process of humanization through a meticulous modulation and standardization of materials.
The vertical and horizontal aesthetic ruptures unfold with variations and dimensions, which transform the structure into a lively and vibrant presence within the urban space. This unique structure does not allow solo interaction with its immediate environment, but it is also stable on its narrative property. The vertical and horizontal breaks along the wide edges of the volumes are visible with light and darkness, offering diverse and unlimited perspectives from the sky.
