Nuno Capa | Arquitecto

Urbo Business Centre

URBO BUSINESS CENTRE

Nuno Ferreira Capa | arquitectura e design

Urbo Business Centre
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ARCHITECTS
Nuno Ferreira Capa | Arquitectura E Design

PHOTOGRAPHS
Joao Morgado

PROJECT YEAR
2019

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

AREA
25600.0 m2

MANUFACTURERS
Effisus, Stacbond

LOCATION
Oporto, Portugal

Urbo Business Centre
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Text description provided by architect.

The Urbo Business Centre is a building for offices and services located in Matosinhos, in the Metropolitan Area of Porto.

Characterized by the single volume, with detached implantation of rectangular geometry, the building is inserted in a corner plot with about 6000m2.

Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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With a total construction area of 25600m2, the building comprises a total of eight floors, six of which above ground for offices, and two basement floors with 200 underground parking spaces, with the exception of an area on the west side on the 1st floor, also on the basement level, suitable for service providers.

The sidewalks, wider on the north and on the south of the building, establish the importance of creating a double entrance in opposite facades.

Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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These two entrances, which, in turn, originate a crossing line, meet themselves in the core of the building - a foyer with the total height of about 24m.

The foyer is an empty space, but vital in the spatial and functional organization of the building, where a large skylight reinforces the importance of the place.

This foyer sets the distribution of the building, with two vertical access cores, stairs, and a group of elevators, taking to the upper floors of offices and to the lower floors of parking.

Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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The upper floors, with about 3000m2 each, organized around the foyer, are serviced by the two opposite nerve centers, in two large spaces, and distributed in order to be enveloped by the exterior and interior facades.

These nerve centers also take to the building’s top-floor (on the sixth floor), in which two smaller volumes conceal the heating, air-conditioning and ventilating mechanical equipment.

The Urbo Business Centre presents in its design and development an architectonic solution based on two key points.

Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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An office space program, with a flexible spatial organization enabling the establishment and usage by a single occupant, or its transformation into different spaces to host manifold occupants; and on a constructive programme, both at the level of structure and cladding elements, as well as in terms of a set of infrastructures based on the most recent and best sustainability guidelines and practices, not only during the design and construction phases, but also in what refers to the life span of the building thus reducing maintenance and conservation costs.

The current singular occupation across the office area, except those four independent commercial units on the ground floor oriented towards av.

Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Teixeira Ruela, confers to the floors a wider and opened form, providing great visual transparency of the overall building, either in the interior horizontal plane or in the vertical plane inters floors, alongside the foyer.

This spatial dimension and transparency of the foyer produce visual relationships across the various floors, the workspaces, and the circulation areas, reinforcing the concept of closeness and collaboration between the users and the occupants.

As for the building constructive solutions, it was adopted a metal structure, with composite floor slabs for the positive floors, with a building envelope system with glass curtain walls as outer covering, composed of extruded aluminium framing members infilled with glass, as well as opaque elements of aluminium composite defining the skin of the building.

Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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The architectonic solution and construction of the facade is the most striking visual element of the building.

It is a structure that is reflected throughout the building, whether on the outer or interior elevations.

It is possible to gaze the arrangement of the rhythmic elements of the facade in different alignments, discovering melodic interpretations.

Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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For the negative floors, it was defined as a reinforced concrete structure.

The set of infrastructures were designed with integrated management systems to optimize and reduce consumption, as for example the LED lighting system with luminescence and presence control.

Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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The architectural design of the Urbo Business Centre is reinforced by the composition of the night lighting of the facade elements.


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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
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Urbo Business Centre
West Elevation
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East Elevation
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North Elevation
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South Elevation


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Section D
Urbo Business Centre
Section F


Urbo Business Centre
-2 Floor Plan
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Ground Floor Plan
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1 Floor Plan
Urbo Business Centre
1 Floor Plan
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2, 3 and 4 Floor Plan
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5 Floor Plan
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Implantation

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