This project is based on the adaptation of a number of buildings in the historic centre of Torres Vedras so as to accommodate an innovative arts centre dedicated to music, performance, new media and the visual arts. 

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Architects: Pedro Gadanho + CVDB arquitectos

Location: 2560 Torres Vedras, Portugal

Architects In Charge: Pedro Gadanho, Cristina Veríssimo, Diogo Burnay

Team: Rodolfo Reis, Joana Barrelas, João Falcão, Ariadna Nieto, Miguel Travesso

Area: 1750.0 m2

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

This project is based on the adaptation of a number of buildings in the historic centre of Torres Vedras so as to accommodate an innovative arts centre dedicated to music, performance, new media and the visual arts. 
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The ambitions of the young institution, as well as the willingness to integrate and rehabilitate the urban ensemble – including a small housing scheme complete with its own street – determined that the Transforma headquarters should play on the ambiguity between public and private. While a cafeteria in the lower floor potentially expands onto the adjacent plaza through the main entrance, a newly minted urban pathway extends the existing alley to connect differ...