Portuguese architects OODA shared with us their proposal (in collaboration with Lencastre Arquitectos) for the Tram Museum International Competition in Porto, Portugal.
More images and architect’s description after the break.
As a generic surface of placement, the city of Porto has special identifying characteristics at the same time capable of creating architectural difficulties.
Such as transportation.
The tram is one of the most iconic figures of Porto and not only helps to keep alive its history and background but also contribute to the statement of the city as a trademark for turism and leisure.
However the museum, concerning its present building, only works as a fragment of memory that do not communicate with the city nor in program neither in presence which is the Tram inner definition and function: circulation, connection people and places.
That said, in our proposal we first adjust the outline of the existing building to our programmatic needs reflecting the nearby fabric. Then we conceptually took the old route plan of Porto Tram as a grid and we intersected literally with the present building which formally creates voids, masses and gaps.
What was circulation in the old plan as tram city-circulation generates now the inner circulation of the building through its functions and the spaces that are left in between are where all the program required is activated and positioned.
Design Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre e Tiago Souto Castro
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Yah, estes gajos não andam muito fixe da cabeça…
Young Buck Quem, eu ou eles? :))
Eles!!In abstract this is an interesting concept, but it does not fit this building at all. Its frustrating because of all the hard work!
I understand their inention and hard work, but come one this roof is just hilarious. I feel sorry for them.
Why do you erase my comment? That is my opinion. I don’t find it a great building and I keep my critique and say once againe:”This is not architecture, not even a student work, it is not art, and it is my opinion” And please leve my comment, every project on this site must have good or bad critique, no? Thanks!
Some interesting aspects, but not more than an early conceptual design.
^ agreed..
not very exciting and not too much development it seems.
i think a 2nd year student could have done this
Thank you Archdaily!
I like the idea of the public space on one of the volumes. Some of the conceptual models are interesting but I just don’t think they have thought this trough. The idea to somehow introduce the old route plan to the building is nice but the execution isn’t. I think the concept has been left on a very shallow level. It only touches the roof and doesn’t bring anything to the building in terms of massing (as far as I can see from the pictures shown). The space in the big hall, as shown in the render, is very confusing. I think they should look a second time at the concept and think over what it could really give to the building.
It’s a very mimetical proposal, trying to impose that cracked form into a heavy-weight building, but not working at all. The naive look of the interiors exemplify perfectly what I’m trying to say. It’s a big mess.
Not that bad in my opinion at all. Great images.
Its clearly a research project i think. Very (too much) conceptual effort and a bit fragile at the end agreed. Great at night view, weak at daylight. Strong in diagrams and thought, structurally funny.
Seems more an intention.
Good one tough.
no.. the design is very nice.. its conceptualization is really interesting.. =)
Great work!!
amazing process and images!
What a BIG BIG mess!! Those interiors are so nonsense…you can hardly see the tram’s!! Maybe they didn’t know that it was supposed to conceive a project where you could actually show and visit the trams!!!Hilarious…!
I gotta agree with seiji and Pedro.
It looks very naive. So much, a 2nd year undergraduate student could have done this.
ArchDaily we don’t really need to see projects like this one. Spare us! Please…
I am really curious with nyam and seiji work. Maybe they can show their undergraduate stuff to us.
LOL! What kind of comment is that? Do you need to be a Pritzker prize winner to see how amateurish this project is?
Quick tip: Next time don’t use maxwell ’cause you’ll never get rid of that grain. ;)
Some guys here really show how limited and simple-minded they are with some furius comments.
Probably doing nothing at their own in the meanwhile. Just plain, free and sick critique. They are only defining themselves.
Just sadness. That´s what to be really sorry about.
- Great effort OODA.
Good thinking tank and research. Not there yet as proper valid composition with programmatic meaning. Attractive massing and conceptual process but a bit crude when set down on existing building.
However have to agree with the night view shot and diagrammatic pieces.
Look great.
Good luck and keep sharing.
I agree.
The roof looks awesome, a bold and creative concept. However it looks half baked as the ground floor and interior space seems unaffected by the audacious cracks.
Would love to see more on that.
Once again, an interesting concept
Good God in heaven what a mess! My interns would have done way better!
the roof’s form is way too literal, they grabbed those transportation plans, stamped it on the roofings and created those openings.. I don’t think they achieved the concept that well