Bak Gordon Architectos

Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta

Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG

ESCOLA SECUNDÁRIA GARCIA DA ORTA

Bak Gordon Arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
Ricardo Gordon Arquitectos

LOCATION
Porto, Portugal

CATEGORY
Schools, Renovation

YEAR
2010

LANDSCAPE
F&C

COLLABORATORS
Leonor Cício, Luís Pedro Pinto, Nuno Costa, Patrícia Cabaça, Pedro Serrazina, Sónia Silva, Walter Perdigão

FOUNDATIONS, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AND HYDRAULICS
Betar

ACOUSTIC
Inacoustics

ELECTRICS, COMMUNICATIONS, SECURITY AND THERMAL
Rodrigues Gomes

CLIENT
Parque Escolar EPE

AREAMS
3200m2 construction Area + 9300m2 De Refurbishment

Text description provided by architect.

Winters in Oporto are usually cold and wet, with heavy rain during much of the school year.

Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG
Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG
Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG
Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG

This school was built in the 1970s as a series of separate pavilions. It was included in the modernization of Portuguese secondary schools, a program with the aim of introducing new resources that are now considered to be essential for public education.

In the context of the new program and the climate, we designed a building that is the school’s central space. It complies with the brief and provides a large recreational area that is external but covered.

Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG
Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG
Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG

The building is linear, and opening onto the covered area are two of the most dynamic parts of the school: the library and the cafeteria. It is located in the space between the existing buildings and, suggesting dislocation this led to a roof design for the open area that appears to be unstable and not supported.

Strong colours in the new environments contrast neutrality of the classrooms, and the greatest intensity is in the great covered “square”.

Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG


Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG
Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG
Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG
Escola Secundária Garcia da Orta
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG


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Bak Gordon Architectos
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