Конкурс проводится с целью создания в городе Порту коворкингового центра, который предполагает работу в едином пространстве молодых специалистов различных отраслей. Кроме того, новый центр должен оживить и преобразить городское пространство. Организаторы ожидают от участников нестандартных идей и решений.
Место для предполагаемого строительства коворкинга находится вблизи исторического центра города, на возвышенности, откуда открывается прекрасный вид на реку и противоположный берег. Сегодня там располагается паркинг.
пресс-релиз:
The new trend of creativity that focuses on a reintrepretation of the local economy into a new flexible system that promotes new opportunities for young creative professionals, has been, during this past few years a new starting point to revitalize Oporto.
With a huge number of young professionals fighting to get career opportunities in the city, we can see that the cultural lifestyle and environment still can manage to atract new talents. Focusing on these young professionals seem to be a huge step to be able to reach technological, creative and innovative progress, that lead consequently to economy development.
For this new class to arise the city must be able to promote the right conditions for them. Beeing able to attract new professionals means redinamize the economy chore and inverse the gentrification process giving a new lifestyle and creative mark to the city’s spaces.
The Proposal
This exercise will focus on designing a Co-working space promoting the right conditions for the young creative professionals to work in the city. The project must be able to reunite professionals from all kinds and have a critical and innovative thinking about the the city’s actual issues and weaknesses.
Located near the historic centre of the city, the site is mainly a car parking area partially under a bridge, on the top of a cliff with a unique view to the river and the opposite margin. Teams are free to explore the most bold and out of the box ideas, using for their advantage the relief of the site and also promoting new ways to innovate co-working spaces within the program stipulated.
Within the co-working area the project must include a good spacial diversity demonstrating a study and analisys of the new tendencies in these new functional buildings.