Flexibility suited to programmatic uncertainty. Farmville by AND-RÉ
03/01/2020.
[Paredes] Portugal
metalocus, ÁNGEL TORNE
metalocus, ÁNGEL TORNE
The AND-RÉ Arquitectos, a Portuguese architecture firm leads by Francisco Ré e Bruno André - won the contest to design Farmille in 2010. The project is a cluster buildigns in Paredes, a small city in Porto District, in northern Portugal.
The project had mix-use program that included the Agricultural Cooperative administration building, an Incubator for design start-ups, 10 houses for designers and artistic residences, shops, a Biological Market, restaurant, bar and an two level underground parking.
The project had mix-use program that included the Agricultural Cooperative administration building, an Incubator for design start-ups, 10 houses for designers and artistic residences, shops, a Biological Market, restaurant, bar and an two level underground parking.
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Site plan. Farmville by AND-RÉ.
Model. Farmville by AND-RÉ.
Program. Farmville by AND-RÉ.
Program. Farmville by AND-RÉ.
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by AND-RÉ
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by AND-RÉ
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by AND-RÉ
Farmville by AND-RÉ. Photograph by AND-RÉ
AND-RÉ Arquitectos designed a proposal with contemporary identity based in vernacular references. The structural independence of the volumes allowed flexibility suited to programmatic uncertainty. The buildings are conceived as time resistant, longstanding envelopes.
Concrete shells, with zinc cladding, outside and inside a flexible space by the absence of pilars or structural elements.
Concrete shells, with zinc cladding, outside and inside a flexible space by the absence of pilars or structural elements.
Project description by AND-RÉ Arquitectos
Farmville is a mix-use building conceived for a specific program that could (and did) change during time. The project is the outcome of a competition won by AND-RÉ in 2010.
At the time the project brief described a mix-use program that included the Agricultural Cooperative administration building, an Incubator for design start-ups, 10 houses for designers and artistic residences, shops, a Biological Market, restaurant, bar and an two level underground parking.
The proposal aimed for a contemporary identity based in vernacular references translated to the design in the form of the icon archetype shape, thus promoting recognition and identification by collective memory. The separations between buildings open the building to the city, allowing pedestrian crossings and transversal permeability that ensures urban and social experiences of proximity.
The structural independence of the volumes allow future flexibility suited to contemporary programmatic uncertainty. The buildings are conceived as time resistant, longstanding envelopes. Like concrete shells, with zinc cladding, the resistant hull is extruded in the shape of the tilted roof archetype section. The interior allows a flexible space by the absence of pilars or structural elements. This way, the program is accomodated and divided in structural independent steel frame volumes, that ocuppy the interior void, and can be easly changed according to future needs.
When the architects are asked to conceive a building that will stand for, lets say, 100 years, we can antecipate that a program like the one on the brief, most certainly would become obsolete. Yet, an investment of millions can ́t become so rapidly obsolete as the nature of the the program that it will acommodate in the first years of the building life.
Either we built temporary constructions, or we must have the responsability to create the strategy for the building to adapt to the unforseen and uncertain future program needs. In this case the program changed several times in the first years of the building life, naturaly accomodating new uses, adapting itself to changing needs, providing a shelter that will maintain its utility through time.
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Architects
Design team
Bruno André, Francisco Salgado Ré, Adalgisa de Castro Lopes, Catarina Fernandes, Dalila Gomes, João Fernandes, Marcos Cruz, Mariana Oliveira, Regina Botelho, Rui Israel, Sara João, Sofia Mota Silva.
Collaborators
Structural Engineering.- Strongaxis.
Client
Paredes Agricultural Cooperative.
Contractor
ASA-ANTONIO SOUSA ALV
Dates
2010 -2018
Area
6,000 sqm
Location
R. Infante Henrique 94, 4580-104 Paredes, Portugal.
Photography
Bruno André, Francisco Salgado Ré. AND-RÉ Architects
AND-RÉ. [Porto / Portugal] Founded in 2008 by the partners Bruno André and Francisco Salgado Ré, AND-RÉ office is a creative studio, dedicated to a strategic practice and forward thinking of architecture and design, which uses to create positive responses to contemporary challenges and paradigms. The office works to find pragmatic and contextualized solutions, focused on the user and the human relationship with space, objects and their impact on the world and society. Headquartered in Portugal, they are also present in Brasil, Switzerland and UAE, where they keep developing innovative strategic concepts, based in respect for society, environment and humanity.
Bruno André is co-founding partner of AND-RÉ. Born in Oporto in 1981, he graduated in architecture at FAULP. He previously worked with Carlos Castanheira and Álvaro Siza Vieira on various projects in Portugal, Dubai and Korea.
Francisco Salgado Ré is co-founding partner of AND-RÉ. Born in Porto in 1981, he studied arts and architecture at FAULP. He dedicated his work to a multidisciplinary cross-pollinated practice between different areas such as architecture, design, art or gastronomy.
MANIFESTO
Act strategically facing main issues.
Adapt to different contexts.
Respect the past and work for the future.
Believe in the user perspective point of view.
Think in architecture and design as critical activities.
Aim for responsible, comprehensive and engaging creations. Feel creation both as cultural consequence and generator. Understand architecture and design as solutions.
http://www.and-re.pt/
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