Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal
20/07/2015.
[Abrantes] Portugal
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
ARX Portugal has taken charge of designing this market for Abrantes's municipality. A market that moves away from the traditional typology of this type of buildings, searching to be an opened and luminous building, while the project takes advantage of the principal idea of the street markets, which take the public space of the street, connecting two streets placed on different level.
Vista aérea. Mercado Municipal de Abrantes por ARX Portugal. Fotografía © Fernando + Sergio Guerra
Vista aérea. Mercado Municipal de Abrantes por ARX Portugal. Fotografía © Fernando + Sergio Guerra
Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Façade. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Inside view. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Inside image. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Inside view. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Stair detail. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Aerial view. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Detail. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Outside view. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Photograph © Fernando + Sergio Guerra.
Model. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Models. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Model. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Model. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Model. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Site plan. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Elevation. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Section. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Section. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Elevation. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Section. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Section. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Ground floor plan. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
First floor plan. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Second floor plan. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Third floor plan. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Roof flor plan. Abrantes Municipal Market by ARX Portugal. Image © ARX Portugal.
Abrantes's municipality will have a new municipal market. The building has been designed by ARX Portugal and we are sure that you will be very glad with the project.
Description of the project by ARX Portugal
The Abrantes Municipal Market is located in the transition to the historical center, where the Rodoviária do Tejo's workshops once were, so badly in ruins that demolition was recommended. It is an urban lot between two streets, each at a different height: at the bottom (to the west) we have the Largo do Tribunal (Court Square); at the top to the east, the N. Sra da Conceição street. It is an extraordinarily narrow lot for the program at hand, and this feature has ultimately determined the design project.
The program stated the importance of connecting these two streets, thus creating an upwards route to the Museu Ibérico de Arqueologia e Arte (Iberian Museum of Archeology and Art), intended to be built in the S. Domingos Convent at the highest city level. Moreover, a closer analysis of the place revealed the need to consider the impact of this new building among the surrounding dwellings, diverse in architecture quality and construction dates, but also considerably smaller when seen from the west.
Typology-wise, a market is a building where the concept of public space is taken to the limit. Still present in so many cultures, the market takes place on the streets, and sellers do their businesses in carts, makeshift stands and tents, making the market place and the city space merge or coincide.
The new Abrantes Market is at once building and street. One can cut across, going from one street to the other, either through the stairway opened at the northern edge, or wandering between the stands and the spiral staircase located at the southern edge. Deep down, it is basically a street, shaped with walls and covered by a white-washed shell of exposed concrete.
On the top of the building two volumes capture the sunlight that flows to the lower floors through openings in the slabs at each level, softly lighting all spaces, highlighting the concrete's texture and exposing the passing of the hours.
Text.- ARX Portugal
CREDITS. TECHNICAL SHEET.-
Architects.- ARX Portugal: José Mateus e Nuno Mateus c/ Ricardo Guerreiro, Fábio Cortês, Ana Fontes, Bruno Martins, Filipe Cardoso, João Dantas, Marc Anguill, Sofia Raposo, Miguel Torres,
Technical team.- Energia Técnica; SAFRE.
Owner.- Câmara Municipal de Abrantes.
Dates.- Project.- 2010. Construction.- 2011-2015.
Area.-1,280 m²
Location.- Esplanada 1º de Maio, Abrantes, Portugal.
More information
Nuno Mateus, José Mateus. ARX portugal
ARX Portugal, Founded in 1991 by Nuno Mateus e José Mateus. In 1993, ARX was the subject of the exhibition "Real Reality" which opened the cycle of Exhibitions of Architecture of CCB. Since then it has participated in numerous exhibitions. Highlights the Exhibition "ARX - Arquivo / Archive" at the Centro Cultural de Belém, inserted under the celebrations of its 20 years.
Nuno Mateus, graduated in Architecture from Faculdade de Arquitectura / Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (FAUTL) in 1984 and completed in 1987 the "Master of Science in Architecture and Building Design" at Columbia University in New York. Together with José Mateus, founded in 1991 ARX Portugal Arquitectos. Ph.D. in Architecture at Faculdade de Arquitetura / Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (FAUTL), 2013. Guest Associate Professor at Faculdade de Arquitetura / Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. Was Director of the Department of Architecture of Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa between 2004 and 2007. Lecturer in several conferences on the work of ARX Portugal in Portugal and in several institutions around the world. Worked previously with Peter Eisenman in New York (1987-1991) and Daniel Libeskind in Berlin (1991).
José Mateus, graduated in Architecture from Faculdade de Arquitectura / Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (FAUTL) in 1986. Together with Nuno Mateus, founded in 1991 ARX Portugal Arquitectos. Guest Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), in Lisbon. Ph.D. candidate in Architecture at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). President of the Director's Board of Lisbon Architecture Triennale, was also Executive Director of the events Trienal 2007 and Trienal 2010. Is also currently a member of Babel’s Editorial Board and a member of the Experts Group of the advisory board to the Art in the Lisbon’s Public Space. Was President of the Southern Regional Assembly of the Ordem dos Arquitectos (2008-2010), as well as Vice President of the Direction of the same Regional Section (2005-2007). Was Author/Coordinator of the magazine Linha (Architecture, Design and Landscape) of the weekly newspaper Expresso. Was also author/coordinator of the two television series Tempo & Traço for SIC Notícias Channel. Lecturer in Portugal and in several institutuions around the world. He took part of the jury of the Architecture Prize of São Paulo Biennial in 2003, Europan Spain 2007, ArchiFad 2011 and Experts Board to European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012.
