Manhufe Parking Lot / Guilherme Machado Vaz

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Matosinhos, Portugal

Text description provided by the architects. This building supports a big Parking lot that once a year is used as a fair ground. It functions as a spacial reference in the vast parking field.

Manhufe Parking Lot / Guilherme Machado Vaz - Image 5 of 17
© Leonardo Finotti

The design explores the concept of inside and outside as well as core and shell. That is translated in it’s fractured form which emphasizes in a cromatic way this idea. To bring this inside space to open air makes it a place where people meet, a meeting point, and also a place from where they can Access its public services.

Manhufe Parking Lot / Guilherme Machado Vaz - Brick
© Leonardo Finotti

A third building, not fractured, makes the idea stronger and enhances the contrast of the whole.

Manhufe Parking Lot / Guilherme Machado Vaz - Facade
© Leonardo Finotti

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Address:Matosinhos, Portugal

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Cite: "Manhufe Parking Lot / Guilherme Machado Vaz" 01 Apr 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/54561/manhufe-parking-lot-guilherme-machado-vaz> ISSN 0719-8884

© Leonardo Finotti

Manhufe Parking Lot / Guilherme Machado Vaz

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