The architectural Project ? which comes a hundred years after the Real Vinícola was built, between 1897 and 1901 ? is grounded on the existing ruins and their rehabilitation, through an investigation on the historical context of the industrial buildings.

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Architects: Guilherme Machado Vaz

Location: Av. Menéres 461, 4450-201 Matosinhos, Portugal

Collaborators: GEG, GPIC, Joaquim Viseu Engenharia

Area: 4700.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Luís Ferreira Alves

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Text description provided by the architects. The architectural Project ? which comes a hundred years after the Real Vinícola was built, between 1897 and 1901 ? is grounded on the existing ruins and their rehabilitation, through an investigation on the historical context of the industrial buildings.
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?The instant a building crumbles?, said Simmel, ?this means nothing more than the mere forces of nature beginning to predominate over human work: the balance between Nature and spirit, which the building manifested, moves in favour f Nature?.

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The main objective of this project was re-establish the balance of forces between Nature and the human spirit. A balance achieved through a negotiation with both Nature, which claims a space that was once hers, in an endless struggle; the human spirit, which manifested a hundr...