The public space project by Domitianus Arquitectura of this unique urban neighbourhood comes at a time of re-foundation of the modern process, reflecting in its urban structure the main issues from the time it was done. In this housing complex, their design overcomes the idea of urban center, and instead, long sets of “bands” are adapting along the road structure, promoting advances and setbacks of buildings or misalignments in the implementation of several blocks, situations diversity, which take on greater meaning when incorporated into the structure of green frame. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The neighbourhood of Lagarteiro located in the parish of Campanhã in the most eastern city of Porto, borders the municipality of Gondomar. This housing complex, where about 1,300 people reside, consists of 13 blocks with 446 housing units, and its construction carried out between 1973 and 1977. The neighbourhood of Lagarteiro characterized by buildings in band, implanted around an unlevel topography, creates in their morphology, diverse urban situations.
