Nacional Center for Legal Innovation | Joaquim Portela

Bragança / Portugal / 2021

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The Legal Innovation Center is located in the historic center of the city of Bragança. This building suffered several interventions over the years, to adapt to the different functions required. Some of these interventions defaced important areas of the building and required restoration. Following the program required for the Legal Innovation Center, it was decided to enhance the relevant architectural features. As this building is part of the urban agglomeration of the historic center of Bragança, it was proposed to maintain the volume of the existing building, keeping the main façade, the perimeter walls, rebuilding the roof with a wooden structure, the ceiling of the main room, the start of the stone stairs, the rear façade, the side shutters and the existing carpentry details. The project concept was based on the principle of continuing the monumentality of the existing stone stairway. It was decided to give the staircase a new life, not with the initial reducing purpose for which it was created – to cause an impact of monumentality on those who entered the building with a uniquely scenic character – but to extend this monumentality to the entire building, defining a way, which at the same time creates/distributes the intended program for the building’s new function, and make this program more interconnected by the visual and continuous communication that the route allows. 


 


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O Centro de Inovação Jurídico está localizado no centro histórico da cidade de Bragança. Este edifício foi inúmeras vezes alvo de intervenções ao longo dos anos, para se adaptar às diferentes funções exigidas. Algumas dessas intervenções descaracterizaram zonas importantes do edifício e necessitaram de recuperação. Tendo em conta o programa exigido para o Centro de Inovação Jurídico, optou-se por valorizar as caraterísticas arquitetónicas relevantes. Sendo este edifício parte integrante do aglomerado urbano do centro histórico de Bragança, foi proposta a manutenção do volume do edifício existente, mantendo a fachada principal, as paredes perimetrais, reconstruindo a cobertura com uma estrutura de madeira, o teto da sala principal, o arranque das escadas em pedra, a fachada posterior, os postigos laterais e os detalhes das carpintarias existentes. O conceito do projeto teve como princípio dar continuidade à monumentalidade do arranque da escada existente em pedra. Decidiu-se dar uma nova vida à escada, não com o propósito redutor inicial para o qual foi criada – provocar um impacto de monumentalidade a quem entrava no edifício com um carácter unicamente cénico – mas estender essa monumentalidade a todo o edifício, definindo um percurso, que ao mesmo tempo cria/ distribui o programa pretendido para a nova função do edifício, e fazer com que esse programa fique mais interligado pela comunicação visual e contínua que o percurso permite. 


 


Colaborators/ Project Team: Marta Couto Rocha Filipa Roque Mafalda Martins Emma Wang Pedro Queirós Patricia Silva 


Photography: José Campos (https://josecamposphotographer.com/)

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    The Legal Innovation Center is located in the historic center of the city of Bragança. This building suffered several interventions over the years, to adapt to the different functions required. Some of these interventions defaced important areas of the building and required restoration. Following the program required for the Legal Innovation Center, it was decided to enhance the relevant architectural features. As this building is part of the urban agglomeration of the historic center of...

    Project details
    • Year 2021
    • Work finished in 2021
    • Client Câmara Municipal de Bragança
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Interior Design
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