Symbiosis between the past and the present innovative.Spectris Innovation Centre by Studium

02/05/2020. [Maia] Portugal
metalocus, MARYAN RODRÍGUEZ BUERGO
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The Spectris Innovation Center occupies a former warehouse that the Studium studio has transformed into contemporary office spaces whose design has focused on the human being that is combined with a playful aesthetic of industrial references.

It is located in the city of Maia, in the Porto District, next to the international airport from Porto. Place where one of the largest industrial parks in the region is located.
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At Studium they took advantage of the open space of the industrial building to create a flexible and open configuration of workspaces using modular solutions and light elements to guarantee that the space adapts comfortably to the needs commercials that are continually changing, in turn establishing a sense of community and comfort in keeping with a modern and inspiring workplace.

They defend that "maximum performance implies a break, recovery and sometimes an escape", so they provide an appropriate outside space in which employees can freely breathe.
 

Project description by Studium

The design of the Spectris Innovation Center Porto facilities was presented as a self-inflicted exercise. The lack of referential context, caused by the decision to expand one of the existing building's bodies to a completely inert attached warehouse space, was the starting point for the study of the interior occupation and an exterior building, as well as for the design and functional dynamics between the multiple contact spaces of both lots.

The privileged location next to Porto airport, subway and highways helped in the decision taken to occupy the neighboring building. The set of about 650 square meters is characterized by its configuration in a warehouse of rectangular volumetry, with its longitudinal axis oriented northeast-southwest and with a central nave. The division is vertical and takes place on 02 floors in the area of the existing offices (north) and an access to a backyard patio with about 500 square meters (south).

The entrance is the first functional unit that defines the symbiosis between the past and the innovation requested to the present. This is the premise on which the creative concept for the project is supported, through an ambitious program for the creation and distribution of around 60 open space jobs, in a fusion between meeting areas, teamwork areas, individual spaces and the expected decompression and leisure time. The central open space thus articulates the community in spaces for meeting and being with spaces for teamwork in a convergence of uses, functions and unequivocal scales for residents as well as for visitors.

The meeting spaces follows this scale in proportion and in the occupation of the existing space: starting from the auditorium as a generating element of different spaces (in themselves and surrounding, own and even resulting in excess) which are combined with the confining and structuring containers (agents of access control and upper floor limit) and as a structural element for team growth on the upper floor supported by these preliminary support points. The  scale also follows the standard definition of the spectrum of use with micro contact points where we can, individually or in groups, extend the primary performance space.

Maximum performance implies a break, recovery and sometimes an escape. The placement of the dining hall in the backyard space proposes exactly that moment of meditation and contemplation, whether by the presence of the collective or the individual, the outer space is appropriate and in which we can freely breathe. The connection with the gym and the game room, justifies the sustainable attitude of comfort and well-being in modern office spaces, in addition to the individual conditions of each individual workstation.

As a unifying element of the entire space, we present the + system which in itself defines areas, functions and moods.

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Site plan.
Ground floor plan.
Sections and elevation.
Rendering. Sections and elevation.
Axonometry.
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Architects
Studium. Sérgio Miguel Magalhães.
Project team
Catarina Rodrigues, Hugo Martins, Miguel Barbosa and Tiago Nogueira.
Client
Detailsmind, HBM Fibersensing and HBK Porto.
Area
658.50 m²
Dates
Completed .- 2019.
Manufacturers
Thermal insulator.- KNAUF. Wood boards.-VALCHROMAT. Floors.- FORBO. Paint.- CIN. Ceramics.- CINCA. Sanitary porcelain.- ROCA y DELABIE. Carpentry.- TECHNAL. Handles.- JNF. Electrical installation. EFAPEL. Light installation.- TROMILUX y LUMITEK. Office furniture.- GUIALMI.
Location
Rua Vasconcelos Costa, Maia, Portugal.
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio.

Sérgio Miguel Magalhães. Studium

Studium is a creative studio focused on interpolation of areas such as architecture, communication design and product. Based in Porto, it is a space with a strong creative and authorial component.

Studium emerge of a selection and ambition of a professional multidisciplinary and complementar team that dedicates itself to the development of projects focused an assertive blend of rigorous vision, passion and oddity mojo. Architects and designers aligned by a methodology and disciplined practice, highly competent in an environment characterized by its constant criticism of traditional models of design.

Studium generated the basis for two complementary projects, intrinsically linked to the interpolated vision of the creative practice : AMMP (brand and management agency) and PTMade (production house). These two studium arms are specialized development vehicles related to the criticism of each project and the content creation ecosystem. This way we provide a complete notion of communication and creative production systems. A complete process, an ecosystem that unifies strategy, criticism and result.

Sérgio Miguel Magalhães was born in Porto in 1979. He develops activities as a critical explorer, through his thinking original structural, analytical criticism and author system. Sérgio did his training at the FAAULP architecture academy. He is a specialist in heritage and Landscape in FAUP and has advanced Video Capture ESAP. Sérgio is a specialist in representations, drawings and images of the FBAUP Territory. Interpolates teaching and professionally since 2000, he directs graphic, web and product design in the Studium studio. Direct brand building and AMMP brand strategy and management agency brand.
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