TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects
02/01/2019.
Nominee EU Mies Award [Carrazeda de Ansiães - Bragança] Portugal
metalocus, ANDREA GONZÁLEZ
metalocus, ANDREA GONZÁLEZ
A project to recover the facilities that were developed around a railroad connection between Spain and Portugal, now with new transport systems and new infrastructure such as a reservoir, has been out of use.
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Photograph by Luis Ferreira Alves
Ground floor plan. TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects.
First floor plan. TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects.
Elevations. TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects.
Details of north section. TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects.
Details of south section. TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects.
Sketch. TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects.
Sketch. TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects.
Sketch. TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects.
Sketch. TUA Valley Interpretive Centre by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects.
The architecture firm based in Oporto, Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects, was commissioned to recover one of the stations, to maintain the memory of this environment of the Douro River, in which it is located.
The result is good architecture. Two facilities, one completely restored and the other completely new, with a cultural program that helps to create links to the inhabitants of the area and to the tourists of this area that is a world heritage site, UNESCO.
The result is good architecture. Two facilities, one completely restored and the other completely new, with a cultural program that helps to create links to the inhabitants of the area and to the tourists of this area that is a world heritage site, UNESCO.
Description of project by Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects
In 1880, the opening of the Douro railway line provided an alternative to waterway transport. Travellers, but more particularly Port wines and the products necessary to produce them, benefitted from the two hundred kilometres of rail tracks connecting the Spanish border and the city of Porto. Between 1988 and 1990, the last 28 kilometres of this railway and several sections of tributary lines (including Tua), considered insufficiently lucrative, were closed. In 2008, operation of the Tua line ceased entirely. The construction of a dam on the Tua River, approved the following year and requiring 16 kilometres of railway tracks to be flooded, made any re-use of the service definitively impossible.
The creation of the Tua Valley Interpretive Centre (TVIC) was part of the compensation programme associated with the construction of the dam. Its purpose is to allow visitors to get to know the history of the valley. The TVIC is housed in two disused hangars of the Tua train station. The Rosmaninho + Azevedo architecture firm wanted to give each hangar a singular identity. The parts dedicated to photography exhibitions and welcome space took up residence in one hangar, which retained its timber envelope, a centennial building restored "board by board" and provided with the required insulation inside. Separated by train tracks, the second part of the TVIC was more comprehensively renovated, in keeping with an ambitious programme. The zinc cladding of the pavilion reconciles two almost antagonistic choices by the architects: sourcing of a material to blend with the industrial character of this venue, while at the same time expressing a noble dimension in line with the Douro's status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Quartz-zinc corrugated panels were installed on the roof and facade, reinterpreting the timber hangars.
The building's floor area was extended in keeping with the limits dictated by the circulation of trains, in order to house the entire programme. Elimination of the side platforms enabled the construction of a thick wall integrating an air gap. Positioned behind the zinc cladding, it produces natural ventilation, minimizing the use of air conditioning equipment. This transversal extension creates more space for the permanent exhibition areas housed on the ground floor of the second hangar. On the upper floor is housed the educational service and the workspaces on a mezzanine. With a substantial economy of means, the zinc skin demonstrates that it is possible to change a building completely without disrupting it, to alter use without betraying the identity of a place.
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Architects
Pedro Azevedo + Susana Rosmaninho. Exterior arrangements.- Pedro Azevedo + Susana Rosmaninho. Project coordination.- Pedro Azevedo
Collaborators
Foundations and Structures.- Fernando Costa (Topoconde). Hidraulic instalations.- Fernando Costa (Topoconde). Electrical installations.- Miguel Amorim (Topoconde). Security.- Fernando Costa, Miguel Amorim (Topoconde).
Mechanical installations. Fernando Costa (Topoconde). Thermal and Sustainability.- Pedro Gonçalves (Topoconde).
Exhibition
Cariátides + United por Gabriella Casella, Catarina Providência, Maria Providência + Miguel Palmeiro
Supervision
José Carlos Moura (AMTQT), Susana Seramota (AMTQT), Fernando Candeia (CMCA)
Developer
ADRVT – Regional Development Agency of Tua Valley
General contractor
Teisil - Empresa de Construções, Lda
Dates
Competition.- 2015 (1st prize). Project.- 2015-2016. Construction.- 2017-2018
Area
1200.00 m² (930.00 m² buildings + 270.00 m² outdoor spaces).
Products
VMZINC, CIN, Gyptec, Amorim Cork, Schreder, Tromilux, Secil, Mesma, Sosoares, Dagol, Saint-Gobain Glass, Onduline, CS Telhas, Somapil, Bosch, Liftech
Investment
€597,000.00
Susana Rosmaninho - Pedro Azevedo Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects
Rosmaninho+Azevedo Architects. Office founded in Porto by Susana Rosmaninho and Pedro Azevedo. The various projects and works have in common being anchored to clear formal concepts that correspond to building strategies that are easily perceived, of which we highlight the work for the Tua Valley Interpretive Centre and the Project for the Requalification and Musealization of Casa do Passal – Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1st Prize, 2017). In addition to the distinctions in public competitions, our work has been published nationally and internationally. In 2018, Tua Valley Interpretive Centre was awarded the Jury’s Special Award at the Archizinc Trophy – VMZinc at a ceremony held in Paris and is nominated for the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2019, the most important European architectural prize awarded by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. For the set of works and projects, our office was also a finalist of the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards (AREA) 2018, a distinction promoted by The Architectural Review magazine, whose presentation before the jury and ceremony took place under the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam.
Susana Rosmaninho. Architect, museologist and cultural producer. Master in Museology by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (2013). Researcher at CITCEM – Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory», since 2014. She has developed museological consulting for various entities. Collaborated between 2011 and 2012 in the curatorial assistance and production of exhibitions under the program of Art and Architecture of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture. Co-founder and director of the Cultural Association Container & Content since 2015.
Pedro Azevedo. Master in Architecture by the Lusíada University of Porto (2009). Finalist of the Secil Architecture Award Universities 2009. Advanced Studies Course in Architectural Heritage by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (2018). Fellow of the Santa María la Real Foundation (2010). Collaborated between 2010 and 2015 with Menos é Mais Associated Architects (Cristina Guedes + Francisco Vieira de Campos). Co-founder of the Cultural Association Container & Content (2015).
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