Canning Factory
CANNING FACTORY
Ooda
ARCHITECTS
Ooda
AREA
15000 m²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Matosinhos, Portugal
CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Factory, Adaptive Reuse
English description provided by the architects.
The former canning factory Brandão & Companhia Ltd is part of the Matosinhos Sul Urbanization Plan by architect Álvaro Siza and occupies a privileged position in the city.
Near the coastline, the unit builds upon the original industrial feel evoking the nostalgia of a time of production and connection to the sea. This emblematic building, part of the collective memory of the place, had different uses over time, being subject to several interventions that mischaracterized it.
By contrast, the proposal aims to fill in the urban fabric with an innovative project that compliments the pre-existing, reconstructing the original building envelope and chimney, withal responds to a very special program: a mixed-use development, which brings together the facilities of a medical laboratory, health clinic, offices, commercial spaces and collective housing.
Whereas the existing volumetry occupies almost the whole lot, green and permeable spaces were created, leading light to their interior and promoting circulation within the block. These spaces produce visual relationships between the different programs with access to the upper floors.
Compact moments are formed in a multi-functional city. In the entrance to the dwellings, a reception space opens to the interior patio that connects to different zones and common areas. Services and commerce are located on the ground floors, while the offices are placed on the first floor. Blocks intended for housing are settled at the top.
The use of materials with different densities – pigmented concrete and aluminium stretched plate – evidences the different times connected by a formal unity that combines the old and the new.
The thickness of the inherited mass is contrasted with the intangibility of the well-proportioned volumes suspended over the patio, elevated and differentiated, with a materiality inspired by the proximity to the sea.
The distribution of the gross area of the building in different blocks, promotes a dynamic volumetric composition, which takes advantage of this intervention on a large plot and responds to the surroundings.
The project establishes a balanced relationship with the design of the public road and neighbouring buildings, revitalizing and dynamizing the block. It is an opportunity for morphological and uses dynamization - two important points aimed at the sustainable construction of the city.
Os serviços e comércio situam-se nos pisos térreos, enquanto que no primeiro piso funcionam os escritórios. No topo instalam-se blocos destinados à habitação.
O uso de materiais com diferentes densidades – betão pigmentado e chapa distendida de alumínio – evidencia os diferentes tempos unidos formalmente num diálogo entre o antigo e o novo.
À espessura da massa herdada opõe-se a intangibilidade dos volumes suspensos sobre o pátio, elevados e diferenciados, proporcionada por uma materialidade inspirada pela proximidade ao mar.
A distribuição da área bruta de construção por diversos blocos possibilita uma composição volumétrica mais dinâmica, que aproveita a intervenção sobre um lote de grandes dimensões para responder adequadamente ao envolvente.
O projeto estabelece uma relação equilibrada com o desenho da via pública e edifícios vizinhos, revitalizando e dinamizando o quarteirão. É uma oportunidade de dinamização morfológica e de utilizações - dois pontos importantes para a construção sustentável da cidade.
