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Lycée Français International de Porto
Lycée Français International de Porto
Porto, Portugal
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Lycée Français International de Porto
Porto, Portugal
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
The French School in Porto is a remarkable building by Manuel Marques Aguiar, Luiz Cunha and José Carvalho Dias, built during the 1960s. It is one of the city’s most interesting schools with its unique surroundings - the site is an extension of the Serralves Park, well known in Porto for its iconic buildings, the House by José Marques da Silva and the more recent Serralves Museum by Álvaro Siza.
The Reception Pavilion for pre-primary and primary students enables after-school activities. In an environment which is as affirmative as it is delicate, the new volume wanted to be at the same time distant from the pre-existence – its volume, its placement and its relationship with the topography should be clearly distinguishable - and sensitive to the landscape. Thus, the equilateral triangular shaped plan allows the necessary distance in relation to the existing buildings, and on the other hand, the use of concrete acknowledges an integration with the surrounding 1960s constructions (in cast concrete and granite stone).
As for the Primary School intervention, the expansion was materialised in an autonomous building with classrooms, services and canteen. The new building adds approximately 4.000 m2 of interior space renovating further 4.000 m2 of exterior space. In this case, the terrain was modeled so that the building was incorporated in the land. The cross-section is very clear in showing the essential idea and project strategy - an inclined plane signalizes the intervention from the exterior - a reference to the roofs of the of the existing pavilions.The classrooms face East towards Serralves, West to the playgrounds, each of them having a privileged relationship with a distinct scenery and natural lighting. In this case too, cast concrete was used as a reference to the existing buildings.
The Reception Pavilion for pre-primary and primary students enables after-school activities. In an environment which is as affirmative as it is delicate, the new volume wanted to be at the same time distant from the pre-existence – its volume, its placement and its relationship with the topography should be clearly distinguishable - and sensitive to the landscape. Thus, the equilateral triangular shaped plan allows the necessary distance in relation to the existing buildings, and on the other hand, the use of concrete acknowledges an integration with the surrounding 1960s constructions (in cast concrete and granite stone).
As for the Primary School intervention, the expansion was materialised in an autonomous building with classrooms, services and canteen. The new building adds approximately 4.000 m2 of interior space renovating further 4.000 m2 of exterior space. In this case, the terrain was modeled so that the building was incorporated in the land. The cross-section is very clear in showing the essential idea and project strategy - an inclined plane signalizes the intervention from the exterior - a reference to the roofs of the of the existing pavilions.The classrooms face East towards Serralves, West to the playgrounds, each of them having a privileged relationship with a distinct scenery and natural lighting. In this case too, cast concrete was used as a reference to the existing buildings.
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